Critical Guide to Intellectual Property

Mat Callahan is a musician and author. He founded seminal world-beat band, Looters, the artists' collective, Komotion International, and produced the revival of James Connolly's "Songs of Freedom". He’s authored four books, Sex, Death and the Angry Young Man (1993); Testimony (2000); The Trouble With Music (2005); and The Explosion of Deferred Dreams (2017).Jim Rogers is a lecturer in communications at the School of Communications, Dublin City University, Ireland. His research interests centre on the political economy of the media. His first book, The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age was published in 2013. Beyond this, his research has been published in a host of international peer-review journals and various edited collections.

• 1. Why Intellectual Property? Why Now? - Mat Callahan and Jim Rogers2. Running Through the Jungle: My Introduction to Intellectual Property - Mat CallahanPart I: Historical Context and Conceptual Frameworks3. Intellectual Property Rights and their Diffusion around the World: Towards a Global History - Colin Darch4. The Political Economy of Intellectual Property - Michael Perelman5. I Am Because I Own vs. I Am Because We Are - Mat CallahanPart II: Terrains of Conflict and Terms of Engagement6. Owning up to Owning Traditional Knowledge of Medicinal Plants - Josef A. Brinckmann7. Using Human Rights to Move Beyond Reformism to Radicalism: A2K for Schools, Libraries and Archives - Caroline B. Ncube8. Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Copyright and Continuity in the Contemporary Music Economy - Jim Rogers9. Free Software and Open Source Movements from Digital Rebellion to Aaron Swartz: Responses to Government and Corporate Attempts at Suppression and Enclosure - Paul McKimmy (with a coda by Bob Jolliffe)Part III: Law, Policy and Jurisdiction10. Rethinking the World Intellectual Property Organization - Deborah J. Halbert11. What is Intellectual Property? - Blayne Haggart12. Piracy, States and the Legitimation of Authority - Mat Callahan13. Summary and Concluding Remarks - Mat Callahan and Jim Rogers

Unwraps intellectual property’s supposed enigma in an accessible fashion. Power, profits, piracy: all are explored here with real arguments and facts. Provocative.