@article{13381,
      recid = {13381},
      author = {Drahos, Peter, and Braithwaite, John. and Drahos, Peter.},
      title = {Information feudalism : who owns the knowledge economy? /},
      pages = {xvii ; 253 pages ;},
      abstract = {"In a few short years, the battle over intellectual  property rights has emerged from obscurity to become  front-page news. The continent-hopping, three-year court  battle fought by activists to bring cheap versions of  desperately needed AIDS drugs to South Africa is but one  example of how this seemingly arcane area of international  regulation has become a crucial battleground in the  twenty-first century and is animating activists the world  over. This powerful book is the definitive history of how  the new global intellectual property regime - the rulebook  for the knowledge economy - came to be. Drawing on more  than five years of research and more than five hundred  interviews with key figures - including negotiators for  First and Third World countries, leaders of multinational  corporations, and public-interest experts, Information  Feudalism uncovers the story of how a small coterie of  multinational corporations wrote the charter for the global  information order. Information Feudalism is an  authoritative history of the demise of the world's  intellectual commons, and a potent call for democratic  property rights."--},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/13381},
}