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[Corynne McSherry] ó Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property ☆ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property 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. Who owns academic work? This question is provoking political and legal battles, fought on uncertain terrain, for ever-higher stakes. All but forgotten in these ownership disputes is a m

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

Title : Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property
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Rating : 4.54 (542 Votes)
Asin : 0674012437
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 288 Pages
Publish Date : 2013-09-11
Language : English

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. Who owns academic work? This question is provoking political and legal battles, fought on uncertain terrain, for ever-higher stakes. 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 wor

(Batia Boe Stolar Canadian Literature) . This is a collection of essays about the limitations of academic freedom, but it is equally a collection about the social nature of the universityThe collection does what it sets out to do: provoke the reader into participating in this important ongoing dialogueAnyone working in academia, in any capacity, should think about these issues and enter into the critical dialogue of which these texts are a part, thus ensuring we put theory into practice. (Anthony Smith Times Higher Education Supplement 2002-02-02)This collection of essaysasks us to consider who has the legal and social right to academic freedom in theory and practice, and what con

Corynne McSherry is an attorney at Bingham McCutchen in San Francisco, CA. She holds a Ph.D. . in Communication from the University of California, San Diego

Fascinating Explanation of University Culture and IP M. Wilson I reviewed this book for the Journal of Technology Transfer. I thought it would be a simple explaination of legal cases and their implications on university IP. Though it had that at the beginning and end, the real meat of the book is the middle, which explains the university culture bette

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