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Tian – Re-Thinking Intellectual Property – Excerpts

Posted by justin on July 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Tian, YiJun. Re-Thinking Intellectual Property : The Political Economy of Copyright Protection in the Digital Era. New York: Routledge, 2009. Print. Part I: Background – Law and Digital Challenges Introduction A central tenant of this book is that developed nations have leveraged unequal bargaining power via transnational trade organizations/agreements in order to force developing nations to accept overly constrictive intellectual property... Read More

Filed under Major Exam · Tagged with bilateralism, copyright reform, developing economies, intellectual property, knowledge economy, multilateralism, political economy of intellectual property, transnational intellectual property agreements, transnational trade

CCR711 – Xiaohe – Ethical Issues in Knowledge Economy

Posted by justin on March 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Xiaohe, Lu. “Ethical Issues in the Globalization of the Knowledge Economy.” Business Ethics: A European Review 10 2 (2001): 113-19. Print. In this article Xiaohe considers China’s relationship to knowledge economies and globalization. Because Xiaohe sees China’s economy as already globalized, it follows that – despite being primarily composed of manufacture and industrial applications – China’s economy is also becoming converted... Read More

Filed under CCR711 · Tagged with China, globalization, intellectual property, knowledge economy

CCR711 – Pagano & Rossi – The Crash of the Knowledge Economy

Posted by justin on March 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Pagano, Ugo, and Maria Alessandra Rossi. “The Crash of the Knowledge Economy.” Camb. J. Econ. 33 4 (2009): 665-83. Print. Pagano and Rossi argue in this paper that intellectual property rights (IPRs) have long acted as “super-tariffs” in global trade relations; additionally, the authors posit that the current global financial slowdown is the result of “intellectual monopolization” by IPR regimes in the United States. To prove... Read More

Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged with favorite, financial crash, intellectual monopolization, intellectual property, IPR, knowledge economy, open science

Ghosh – Cooking Pot Markets: An Economic Model for Trade in Free Goods and Services on the Internet

Posted by justin on February 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer. “Cooking Pot Markets: An Economic Model for Trade in Free Goods and Services on the Internet.” First Monday 3.2 (1998). 2/15/2010 <http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/580/501>. This article considers the motivations for producing free products – like Firefox, Netscape and other open-source (or not) freeware – for download over the internet. The author argues that neither... Read More

Filed under CCR760 · Tagged with digital community, gift economy, ideas economy, information economy, knowledge economy, webutation

music

New Music – 10/13/2011

Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal : Such amazingly wonderful, sweet, poppy goodness from this Reykjavik-based 6 piece. I especially appreciate the omnipresent accordion and loud shout-outs that occur throughout the album. I do wish the vocals were a bit more difficult to get at . . . but I suppose [...]

New Music – 9/14/2011

The Hylozoists – L’Île de Sept Villes: This 2009 effort from Toronto based instrumental collective is based on Paul Chaisson’s book The Island Of Seven Cities. After much archaeological research trouncing about in the wayfarlands of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Chaisson argues that a Chinese presence existed in North America long before the arrival of European [...]

New Music – 8/24/2011

The Dead Trees – Whatwave : A lot of pretty nice songs for late Summer on this release. The West Coast by way of Boston quartet is signed to the German Affairs of the Heart label (who also publishes the work of one of my faves Nik Freitas). So many good LA-based bands working for [...]