A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism For the Net?

James Boyle, American University

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 1996)

This article argues that we need a politics, or perhaps a political economy, of intellectual property. Using the controversy over copyright on the Net 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.