Inventing Publics: Kairos & Intellectual Property Law
Channel: The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Date: 12/06/2018

Christine Harold explored the possibilities of the “open content” movement, specifically the licensing model offered by Creative Commons, as a productive alternative to other prevalent responses to the corporate hoarding of cultural resources. As she argues in her recent book OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture, rather than engaging commercial culture dialectically, an open content approach serves as a provocation to commercialism by amplifying certain market logics and, in doing so, undermines concepts such as “author” and “property” on which corporate power depends.

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http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2007/11/harold