Sharing, Crime against Capitalism by David, Matthew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Acknowledgements 1 Introduction

Sharing: Crime Against Capitalism? Alternative Business Models or Alternatives to Business? The Economics of Sharing and of Capitalism The Structure of the Book What Sharing? And (more to the point) What is Sharing?

2 Libraries and the Digital World

Introduction Information: Culture or Capital Literacy, Education and Libraries Digital Revolutions One and Two Internet and Access Digital Commons: The Anarchist in the Library Orphan Works: The Capitalist in the Archive Libraries as Records of Ownership and/or the Common Heritage of Humanity Plagiarism vs. Piracy From Scarcity to Authority Conclusions: Free Culture or Fee Culture

3 Peer-to-Peer Music Sharing Online

Introduction From CDs to Napster: The Rise of Peer-to-Peer From Napster to Now The Myth of The Recording Artist (Then and Now) The ‘Romantic’ Myth of the Recording Artist Why Sign? Why Not Sign? The Rise of Live Adaptive (iTunes and Spotify) vs. Alternative (Sharingand Selling-Based) Business Models Conclusions: Reversing the Menu and the Meal

4 Live-streaming and Television Rights Management

5 Open-Source Software and Proprietary Software

Introduction The Spirit of the Information Age: Hackers, Rebel Code and Play Struggle Digital Rights Management Peer-to-Peer Software Non-Profit Organizations in the Information Economy Computer Games Platforms, Programmes and the Limits of Property Conclusions: Sharing, the Gift Economy, Play Struggle and Creativity

6 Publishing: Academic, Journalistic and Trade

Introduction Academic Publishing Journalistic Publishing: The Editorial Nexus and Beyond? Trade Publishing: Capitalist Concentration The Long Tail and the Real Lives of Authors Is First Mover Advantage Enough? Conclusions: Recognition, Valuation and Innovation

7 Genes, Genetically Modified Organisms, Patents and Agribusiness

Introduction ‘The Genetic Commons’: Human and Non-Human Nature Culture: Heritage and Public Sphere Discovery and Invention: On Patents and the Public Domain Science as Method and Colonial Appropriation ‘Reinventing’ ‘Nature’: Undoing the Discovery/Intention Distinction via Genetically Modified Organisms Patenting Human Gene Lines Terminator Genes and Food Security Alternatives and Critiques The Common Heritage of Humanity: Seeds, Plants and Farmers’ Rights Traditional Knowledge Banks Biopiracy against Whom? The Human Genome Project Public Knowledge? deCode Genetics, the Public as Private and Vice Versa The Eureka Myth Genetics and the Law Conclusions: Common Heritage and Sharing Knowledge Production

8 Pharmaceutical Patents and Generic Drugs

Introduction Ebola AZT: A History of Control Bold Claims Who Pays and What Gets Bought? Patent and Medical Innovation One Way Street: The Case of Anthrax and National Security Generic Medicines Faking Fakes: The Attempt to Present Generics as Counterfeits HIV in South Africa, Brazil and Elsewhere Conclusions: Sharing Knowledge and Improving Human Health

9 Conclusions: Sharing – Crime against Capitalism

Introduction The Efficiency of Sharing The Efficacy of Sharing: Fostering Quality and Access The Incentive Structures of Sharing Sharing’s Challenge to the Tragedy of the Anti-Commons Sharing and the Triumph of the Commons? Global Network Capitalism Power and Counterpower in the Global Network Society Only a Return – to Advertiser Funding? The Rise of ‘Live’: Unmediated Mediation The Criminalization or the Colonization of Free-Sharing? A Gift Economy? Sharing: A Crime Against Capitalism

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