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The Literature Review of The Romance of the Public Domain
Analysis, Discussion and Conclusion
Intellectual Property
The notion of intellectual property has existed for more than two centuries and some efforts of international cooperation for protecting intellectual property have been made for several decades. However, there are some disadvantages of existing international cooperation mechanisms of intellectual property protection, which causes the imbalance between developed countries and developing countries.
The Romance of the Public Domain
The romance of public domain is defined as “resources for which legal rights to access and use for free (or for nominal sums) are held broadly” (pp. 1338).
Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy
The article explores media piracy in Nigeria as “part of the ‘organizational architecture’ of globalization” including infrastructures which were organized and constructed with all kinds of “corruption and parasitism” (pp. 289).
The First Chapter of the Book Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
This chapter starts with an example of the electronics multinational NEC which found “an entire parallel NEC organization” through an investigation on “the reports that its products were being counterfeited and sold in Chinese stores” (pp. 1).
Analysis and Discussion
With humans gradually entering the era of the internet since the twenty-first century, the widely existing internet and the infrastructure which is able to make platforms be capable of rapid dissemination of information makes people reconsider how to protect intellectual property and fight against piracy.
Conclusion
Reference
Benkler, Yochai. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. Yale University Press, 2008.
Chander, Anupam, and Madhavi Sunder. “The Romance of the Public Domain.” California Law Review, vol. 92, no. 5, 31 Oct. 2004, pp. 1331–1373. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3481419. Accessed 29 Nov. 2023.
Johns, Adrian. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Larkin, Brian. Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy. Public Culture, vol. 16, no. 2, 1 May 2004, pp. 289–314. Duke University Press, https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-16-2-289. Accessed 29 Nov. 2023.