"This is a book for academics interested in both knowledge and property-historically, sociologically and anthropologically"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society. Scholars of science, technology, medicine, and law have all tended to emphasize knowledge as the sum of human understanding, and its ownership as possession by law. Breaking with traditional discourse on knowledge property as something that concerns mainly words and intellectual history, or sc…