A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net?

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James Boyle

Duke University School of Law

Date Written: October 1, 1997

Abstract

This Essay argues that we need a politics, or perhaps a political economy, of intellectual property. Using the controversy over copyright on the Internet as a case study and the history of the environmental movement as a comparison, it offers a couple of modest proposals about what such a politics might look like-what theoretical ideas it might draw upon, and what constituencies it might unite.

Suggested Citation

Boyle, James, A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net? (October 1, 1997). Duke Law Journal, Vol. 47, No. 1, 1997, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3084808 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3084808

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