Who Owns Academic Work?. Battling for Control of Intellectual Property

McSherry, Corynne

ISBN 10: 0674006291 / ISBN 13: 9780674006294

Verlag: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2001

Beschreibung

275 pp.Ê dj. Rubber-stamped on front free endpaper. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 34038

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Who Owns Academic Work?. Battling for ...

Verlag: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Erscheinungsdatum: 2001

Einband: Hardback

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Art des Buches: book

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Inhaltsangabe:

Who owns academic work? This question is provoking political and legal battles, fought on uncertain terrain, for ever-higher stakes. The posting of faculty lecture notes on commercial Web sites is being hotly debated in multiple forums, even as faculty and university administrators square off in a battle for professorial copyright. In courtrooms throughout the country, universities find themselves embroiled in intricate and expensive patent litigation. Meanwhile, junior researchers are appearing in those same courtrooms, using intellectual property rules to challenge traditional academic hierarchies. All but forgotten in these ownership disputes is a more fundamental question: should academic work be owned at all? Once characterized as a kind of gift, academic work - and academic freedom - are now being reframed as private intellectual property Drawing on legal, historical, and qualitative research, Corynne McSherry explores the propertization of academic work and shows how that process is shaking the foundations of the university, the professoriate, and intellectual property law. The modern university's reason for being is inextricably tied to that of the intellectual property system. The rush of universities and scholars to defend their knowledge as property dangerously undercuts a working covenant that has sustained academic life - and intellectual property law - for a century and a half. As the value structure of the research university is replaced by the inequalities of the free market, academics risk losing a language for talking about knowledge as anything other than property. McSherry has written a book that ought to deeply trouble everyone who cares about the academy.

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McSherry is concerned with the future of intellectual property at a time when universities continue to combine a place in the market economy with their traditional role in a gift economy. Her second worry is the flip side: what will be the effect on universities as our standards and definitions of intellectual property change, especially given the way the public domain is eroding?...The book provokes much thought about issues that most academic scientists likely do not consider in much depth--copyright, patent and data ownership, and the "work-for-hire" exclusion of individual employee's rights in the US...McSherry ably demonstrates that universities are going through a second revolution. Academics should be wary of what that revolution may bring.--Steven M. Bachrach"New Scientist" (12/01/2001)