\(
\def\WIPO{World Intellectual Property Organisation}
\)
Information Environmentalism : A Governance Framework for Intellectual Property Rights.
2014
F 619 CUN.I
Available at WIPO Library
Items
Details
Title
Information Environmentalism : A Governance Framework for Intellectual Property Rights.
Author
Description
320 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780857938435 Print
9780857938442 eBook
9780857938442 eBook
Alternate Call Number
F 619 CUN.I
Summary
The regulation and flow of information continues to have a critical impact upon how people live their lives and the way society functions. In recent times, disinformation and privacy violation have become the ‘information pollution’ of the 21st century. This book explores ways and means of protecting the ‘information environment’ by drawing upon four theories of contemporary environmentalism: welfare economics, the commons, ecology, and public choice theory. Welfare economics highlights the need to focus on costs (as well as benefits) when evaluating regulatory structures. The commons encourages queries about the validity of propertisation. Ecology speaks to the importance of diversity and resilience. And public choice theory hazards against the regulatory effect of concentrated interests. The lessons from each inspire the proposed information environmental governance framework. By neatly capturing the metaphorical relationship between the physical environment and the information environment, Robert Cunningham explores progressive regulatory pathways for the digital age. This book will be a thought-provoking read for scholars and students with an interest in intellectual property or the regulation of information.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-283) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Information Environmentalism
2. Information Paradox and Public Goods
3. Externalities and Monopolies
4. Information Commons
5. Tragedy of (Ignoring) the Information Semicommons
6. The Social Ecology of Information Environmental Governance
7. Should the Information Commons have Standing?
8. Rational Truths, Reasonable Arguments and Rhetorical Imagination
9. Public Choice Theory and Social Production
10. Constitutional Economics and the Separation of (Economic) Power
11. Control, Alt, Delete: Towards an Information Environmental Governance Framework
Index.
2. Information Paradox and Public Goods
3. Externalities and Monopolies
4. Information Commons
5. Tragedy of (Ignoring) the Information Semicommons
6. The Social Ecology of Information Environmental Governance
7. Should the Information Commons have Standing?
8. Rational Truths, Reasonable Arguments and Rhetorical Imagination
9. Public Choice Theory and Social Production
10. Constitutional Economics and the Separation of (Economic) Power
11. Control, Alt, Delete: Towards an Information Environmental Governance Framework
Index.
Linked Resources
Published
Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar, 2014.
Language
English
Record Appears in