[A2k] IPR and abundance, a somewhat theoretical piece

Roberto Verzola rverzola@gn.apc.org
Mon Nov 17 18:25:02 2008


It will be pubished by Zone Books. I don't think the book is out yet.

Roberto


On Sunday 16 November 2008 00:22:01 Mark Perkins lists wrote:
> Hi Robert
>
> Could you provide further details on the book & from where it is
> available?
>
> Kind regards & thanks
>
> Mark Perkins MLIS, MCLIP
> www.markperkins.info
>
> https://keyserver.pgp.com/
>
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> Subject: [A2k] IPR and abundance, a somewhat theoretical piece
>
> Hi to all,
>
> I am Roberto Verzola, a social activist in the Philippines. I have been
> working on IPR issues for sometime. My book Towards a Political Economy
> of Information was published in 2004.
>
> If anyone is interested in a somewhat theoretical piece that places IPRs
> in books, music, video software, the Internet, inventions, seeds, GMOs,
> etc within a single theoretical framework, you may want to read my piece
> "Undermining Abundance" which is available at the SSRN site:
>
> http://ssrn.com/abstract=1160044
>
> I would appreciate comments, critique, debate, etc. by private mail (and
> on this list too, if anyone is interested). It will hopefully appear as
> a chapter in a book entitled From Intellectual Property Rights to Access
> to Knowledge by Gaelle Krikorian and Amy Kapczynski (eds.)
>
> Greetings from the Philippines,
>
> Roberto Verzola