Copyright

"I resent a legal system that makes it too difficult and too expensive for creators to play around with the culture...... To participate in culture is to share, and now, all of a sudden, our laws are telling us that we may not be cultural."
Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan

Articles

BESSER, Howard. "Intellectual Property: The Attack on Public Space in Cyberspace"

Just as large-scale economic forces are causing gentrification of our cities and the elimination of public spaces that allow culture and politics (...)

WARD, Dana. "An Ethic of Copyright"

Certainly, copyright law as currently constituted works primarily to advance the interests of capital, not the interests of those who create (...)

McCann, Anthony. "Beyond the Commons. Enclosure within and without the Commons"

Commodification (also commoditization) is a popular word among mainly left-wing thinkers, due to Karl Marx’s enthusiasm for the term "commodity" (...)