Sebastian Haunss demonstrates how intellectual property conflicts have brought about new cleavages in the knowledge society and new collective actors.
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Description based upon print version of record. Sebastian Haunss demonstrates how intellectual property conflicts have brought about new cleavages in the knowledge society and new collective actors.
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Cover Conflicts in the Knowledge Society Title Copyright Contents Figures Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1.1. Why now? 1.2. Politicization of IP 1.3. The organization of this book 2 The politicization of intellectual property 2.1. How IP has become political 2.1.1. The growing economic importance of IP 2.1.2. A growing number of international treaties 2.1.3. IP as a high-profile political issue 2.1.4. IP becomes personal 2.2. The history of intellectual property rights.
2.3. The current legal and institutional system 2.3.1. Patents 2.3.2. Copyrights 2.4. Legitimatory narratives 2.4.1. Natural and personal rights 2.4.2. Utilitarian legitimations 2.4.3. Balancing monopoly rights 2.5. Current developments and conflicts 3 Conflict and change in the knowledge society 3.1. Information, network or knowledge society? 3.2. Theories of the knowledge society 3.2.1. Bell's post-industrial society Bell's theory of social change Conflicts in the knowledge society according to Bell 3.2.2. Castells' network society.
Castells' theory of social change Conflicts in the knowledge society according to Castells 3.2.3. Stehr's knowledge society Stehr's theory of social change Conflicts in the knowledge society according to Stehr 3.3. Going beyond the stage model 3.4. Theories of social change and conflicts revisited 3.5. Change and conflict in the knowledge society 4 Software patents in Europe 4.1. The institutional context of the software patents conflict 4.2. The development of the conflict 4.2.1. From the Green Paper to the proposal.
4.2.2. The strength of the European Parliament 4.2.3. Trouble in the Council 4.2.4. The Parliament's rejection Conclusions from the network analysis 4.3. The network of actors 4.4. Frames 4.5. Bringing the threads together 4.5.1. Political opportunity structures 4.5.2. Actor networks 4.5.3. Frames 4.6. Software patents and the knowledge society 5 Access to medicines 5.1. The context of the conflict about access to medicines 5.2. From TRIPS to Doha 5.2.1. Prize funds and an R&D Treaty 5.2.2. Regional mobilizations 5.3. The network of actors.
5.3.1. International organizations 5.3.2. Nation-states 5.3.3. Corporate actors 5.3.4. NGOs and civil society actors 5.4. Framing the issue 5.4.1. Public health versus IP - framing access to medicines 5.5. Context, actors and frames of the access to medicines conflict 5.6. Access to medicines - a conflict of the knowledge society 6 Pirates and commoners 6.1. The rise of Pirate Parties 6.1.1. The Swedish Piratpartiet 6.1.2. The German Piratenpartei 6.1.3. Sailing on unstable seas 6.2. Pirate frames 6.2.1. Sweden 6.2.2. Germany.
6.3. Pirates in the knowledge society.
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Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law.
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Print version: Haunss, Sebastian Conflicts in the Knowledge Society : The Contentious Politics of Intellectual Property New York : Cambridge University Press,c2013