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Conflicts in the Knowledge Society: The Contentious Politics of Intellectual Property
Contributor(s): Haunss, Sebastian (Author)
ISBN: 1107036429     ISBN-13: 9781107036420
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $123.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: May 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Law | Intellectual Property - General
- Law | Business & Financial
Dewey: 346.048
LCCN: 2012044895
Series: Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.19 lbs) 300 pages
 
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In Conflicts in the Knowledge Society, Sebastian Haunss demonstrates how conflicts relating to the international system of intellectual property have resulted in new cleavages in the knowledge society. Furthermore, he argues that new collective actors have emerged from these conflicts with the ability to contest the existing dominant order. With a focus on political opportunity structures, collective action networks and framing strategies, he combines a theoretical discussion of social change in the knowledge society with empirical analyses of four recent developments: software patents in Europe, access to medicines, Creative Commons licensing and Pirate Parties.

Contributor Bio(s): Haunss, Sebastian: - Sebastian Haunss is a senior researcher in political science at the University of Bremen, where his research interests are social conflicts and political mobilisations in the knowledge society, changes in political and economic legitimacy, social networks and social movements.