Information Feudalism: Who owns the knowledge economy? by Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite, Earthscan, £12, ISBN 1853839175 Reviewed by Mike Holderness
ANY opinion about “intellectual property” is invariably foolish according to Richard Stallman, the apostle of the free software movement. That’s because the term lumps together the different debates about authors’ rights, patents and trade marks. We wouldn’t mix up strawberries, toadstools and semen if bureaucratic convenience one day led to the formation of an International Reproductive Entities Organization in Geneva… would we?
Peter Drahos, an Australian lawyer and researcher at the University of London, and his collaborator John Braithwaite…
