Abstract

"Cognitive capitalism presents two main characteristics, collective intelligence and intensive use of the new technologies of information based on digitalization of contents and procedures. This creates an enormous challenge to the enforcement of intellectual property rights and produces a global crisis for the economic models of cultural industries. The open source movement is closer to the terra nullius principle, which is now rebuked by constitutional law, while Copyleft and Creative Commons stand for a new system of appropriation rules, which will efficiently protect the biosphere against biopiracy and the noosphere against predation of positive externalities by cognitive capitalism."

Intellectual Property Rights, Terra Nullius and Cognitive Capitalism

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