Conflicts in the Knowledge Society The Contentious Politics of Intellectual Property

Author: PD Dr Sebastian Haunss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107036420
Published In: April 2013
Format: Hardback , 296 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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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.

• Helps reader to understand how and why seemingly separate developments relating to intellectual property are connected

• Provides a theoretical background which aids the understanding of current conflicts about intellectual property rights and offers empirical underpinnings to the notion of social change

• Explores the social processes without which the current conflicts about IP cannot be fully understood

List of figures	vii
List of tables	viii
Acknowledgements	ix
List of abbreviations	xi
1 Introduction	1
1.1 Why now?	2
1.2 Politicization of IP	3
1.3 The organization of this book	4
2 The politicization of intellectual property	11
2.1 How IP has become political	12
2.2 The history of intellectual property rights	21
2.3 The current legal and institutional system	26
2.4 Legitimatory narratives	33
2.5 Current developments and conflicts	47
3 Conflict and change in the knowledge society	52
3.1 Information, network or knowledge society?	53
3.2 Theories of the knowledge society	59
3.3 Going beyond the stage model	78
3.4 Theories of social change and conflicts revisited	83
3.5 Change and conflict in the knowledge society	88
4 Software patents in Europe	94
4.1 The institutional context of the software patents conflict	95
4.2 The development of the conflict	99
4.3 The network of actors	119
4.4 Frames	129
4.5 Bringing the threads together	136
4.6 Software patents and the knowledge society	140
5 Access to medicines	143
5.1 The context of the conflict about access to medicines	143
5.2 From TRIPS to Doha	147
5.3 The network of actors	159
5.4 Framing the issue	173
5.5 Context, actors and frames of the access to medicines conflict	181
5.6 Access to medicines – a conflict of the knowledge society	183
6 Pirates and commoners	186
6.1 The rise of Pirate Parties	187
6.2 Pirate frames	194
6.3 Pirates in the knowledge society	200
6.4 Creative Commons	201
6.5 The Creative Commons frame	210
6.6 Creative Commons and the conflicts in the knowledge society	212
7 Conclusion: new cleavages and new collective actors	214
7.1 Patterns of difference and similarity	214
7.2 Beyond policy conflicts – patterns of conflict and change in the knowledge society	223
7.3 A movement in the making?	233
References	237
Interviews	266
Appendix 1: Documents used for the frame analysis in Chapter 5	269
Index	272