Steal This Idea
Subtitle: Intellectual Property Rights and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Palgrave
Published: April 20, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780312294083
Subjects: Capitalist or free market economies; Economic theory & philosophy; Intellectual property, copyright & patents; Political economy; Law Of Intellectual Property; Technology; Business / Economics / Finance; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Law; Intellectual Property - General; Knowledge Capital; Technology / General; General; Corporations; Intellectual Property; United States
First sentence: Proponents of intellectual property rights seem to regard them as the pinnacle of the market economy.
Description: "Conventional wisdom argues that intellectual property rights are a necessary and powerful driver of economic progress. By shielding inventions and intellectual work from dangerous competition, these rights supposedly encourage creativity. In reality, by looking at the nexus of science policy, copyright, and new technologies, Perelman shows convincingly that current laws actually throttle innovation and progress.

Intellectual property rights grant enormous powers to corporations but offer very little to the creative artist or inventor. Perelman shows how current intellectual property rights do more damage than good by promoting fragmentation, unnecessary duplication, secrecy, and frequent litigation. Steal This Idea explores options for moving beyond the current regime to one that truly fosters intellectual progress and results in a more equitable distribution of goods created under its watch."--BOOK JACKET.