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6 - Conclusion: Politics Was Already in the Way

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2019

Gordon Hull
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
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This chapter both provides a condensed case for why the analysis of intellectual property (IP) through differing regimes of power is a fruitful one, and details a couple of its implications. One is that we need to be attentive to the way IP law creates certain kinds of subjects, and to be willing to critique it on those lines.The other takes the form of a brief discussion of alternatives proposed to IP, in such areas as “low IP” zones and in creative commons-style proposals.I conclude that the degree to which these alternatives fundamentally challenge the neoliberalization of IP and its move away from public biopower, is essential in assessing the extent to which they actually are alternatives.The goal is not to be strongly prescriptive, but, in the manner of Foucault, to help figure out what are the right questions to ask.

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The Biopolitics of Intellectual Property
Regulating Innovation and Personhood in the Information Age
, pp. 185 - 198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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