Steal This Idea: Intellectual Property and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity

This book describes how corporate powers have erected a rapacious system of intellectual property rights to confiscate the benefits of creativity in science and culture. This legal system threatens to derail both economic and scientific progress, while disrupting society and threatening personal freedom. Perelman argues that the natural outcome of this system is a world of excessive litigation, intrusive violations of privacy, the destruction system of higher education, interference with scientific research, and a lopsided distribution of income.

Author: M. Perelman
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/02/2004
Pages: 265
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.92h x 5.78w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781403967138

About the Author
MICHAEL PERELMAN is the author of Class Warfare in the Information Age and Transcending the Economy. He is Professor of Economics at California State University at Chico.