Intellectual Property is a controversial concept, since it implies that culture can be a property, but for lack of a better alternative and a generally accepted alternative concept, we're still using it here.

This page is maintained by Michel Bauwens, Eric Fanfoni, Nicholas Bentley, Jim Puntasen.

If you are from the South, Robert Verzola's Cyberlords as a rentier class is recommended reading.

Recommended Delicious Tags

Intellectual Property [1]; Open Content[2]; FLOSS [3] P2P-Filesharing [4]; Creative Commons [5]; Copyleft [6]; GPL [7]

and other appropriate tags are at http://del.icio.us/mbauwens

P2P Hall of Fame: Intellectual Property Experts

P2P Intellectual Property Theory Hall of Fame: Richard Stallman (General Public License) Lawrence Lessig [8] (Creative Commons and Free Culture movement), James Boyle [9](IP developments), Nicholas Bentley (Intellectual Contributions Theory), Ben Moglen (Free Software Foundation legal counsel), Peter Suber [10](Open Access, Jessica Litman (Digital Copyright); David Bollier [11][12](Commons); Cory Doctorow (anti-DRM activism); Stephen Dowes [13] (e-learning and learning objects)

Peter Drahos [14] (author of books The Philosophy of Intellectual Property and Information Feudalism)

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