[...]... non-Western property systems; articulating rights that transcend property rights; perhaps even embracing the idea of no ownership at all Having taken the journey towards understanding intellectual property as a system, I still try to resist the over-expansion of intellectual property rights whenever possible I try to keep my own sense of ownership over intellectual work to a minimum and focus on the intellectual. .. create and protect work These alternatives, through their very existence, debunk the intellectual property ideology that so loudly asserts we need strong intellectual property laws to ensure people create Many people create all sorts of things without understanding intellectual property law What the language of intellectual property masks is the global political economy of highly concentrated copyright... information or to think about intellectual property that transcends the private property rhetoric of the contemporary debate These resistances to intellectual property take place at both theoretical and practical levels as an effort is made to re-imagine intellectual property This re-imagining will ultimately, it is hoped, help establish a counter-discourse to the language of private property that has been... centuries that can serve as alternatives to the Western paradigm of intellectual property Unfortunately, these systems are being exploited by those who embrace the property regimes of the West Additionally, the global rush to develop TRIPS as the only viable protective model for intellectual property arrogantly assumes that the intellectual property models developed by Europe and the USA are the best and... intellectual property very tentatively I agree, for the most part, with Richard Stallman that the concept of intellectual property is not appropriate.12 In part, this is true because it tends to lump together very different types of legal regimes under the same category and thus obscures the differences between copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secret law However, the idea of intellectual property. .. intellectual property system.6 The CTEA is one example of a larger press to expand property boundaries in the information age The USA seems to be leading the movement towards greater privatization, but the shrinking public domain is an international phenomenon as laws are passed and the system of intellectual property comes to be understood as the “natural” method for protecting original work The property. .. commodification of intellectual property is being actively resisted and alternatives envisioned Halbert’s exploration of the world of resistance to intellectual property unfolds through six substantive areas Her work takes in the public domain, copyright law, filesharing, pharmaceutical patenting, biotechnology, and biopiracy and biocolonialism Throughout she focuses on the construction of an intellectual property. .. ramifications of that connection? Third, it is essential to uncover how the expansion of intellectual property harms the public domain Finally, I will evaluate the contemporary movement to reinvigorate and develop a viable public domain that will serve as a counterweight to the over-emphasis of intellectual property Intellectual property and the public domain While it is important to evaluate the public domain... Even then they have been little understood; less obvious still have been the strategies with which intellectual property can be resisted Debora Halbert tackles this complex and highly legalistic area in the latest addition to the RIPE series in Global Political Economy Her book, Resisting Intellectual Property, provides a great service to scholars and students of global political economy alike Not only... rivers that make my own work possible I am not alone in trying to resist the expansion of property rights The chapters in this book document a growing level of resistance, both theoretical and practical, to the over-expansion of intellectual property rights Small and large resistances to our current intellectual property path are emerging every day Resistance ranges from academic scholars who advocate . Baker, David Hudson and Richard Woodward 17 Resisting Intellectual Property Debora J. Halbert Resisting Intellectual Property Debora J. Halbert First published. the author of Intellectual Property in the Information Age: The Politics of Expanding Property Rights. Resisting Intellectual Property RIPE series in global