Silent Theft
The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 2002
272 pages
978-1-136-76035-8 (ISBN)
Description
'They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose.' - Traditional nursery rhyme Until a 1998 federal court decision, a Minnesota publisher claimed to own every federal court decision, including Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board of Education. A Texas c
Reviews / Votes
"Bollier gives convincing examples of how natural resources (including water), public information, federal drug research, and public space are all being snapped up for private gain.Mr. Bollier describes valiant efforts to reclaim those things, places, and information held in common-to be shared forever by the private gain of no one.-Brian Smith, Earth Justice IN BRIEF."
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
4,20 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-76035-8 (9781136760358)
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Person
David Bollier has worked for twenty years as a journalist, activist, and public policy analyst. He is Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Director of the Information Commons Project at the New America Foundation. He is also co-founder of Public Knowledge, a public-interest advocacy organization dedicated to defending the commons of the Internet, science and culture.
Content
1. Reclaiming the Narrative of the Commons 2. The Stubborn Vitality of the Gift Economy 3. When Markets Enclose the Commons 4. Enclosing the Commons of Nature 5. The Colonization of Frontier Commons 6. The Abuse of the Public's Natural Resources 7. Can the Internet Commons Be Saved? 8. The Privatization of Public Knowledge 9. Enclosing the Academic Commons 10. The Commercialization of Culture and Public Spaces 11. The Giveaway of Federal Drug Research and Information Resources 12. The Commons: Another Kind of Property 13. Strategies for Protecting the Commons
