Employees are the primary inventors, but they are often deprived of their rights by legal strategies that capture their expertise. In response, new forms of resistance are emerging, based on open access.
By putting forward an analysis of the historical depths of the bonds connecting science to capitalism, Gabriel Galvez-Behar’s book opens up stimulating research perspectives for a critical analysis of the political economy of knowledge.
The idea of the Commons prospers today as a powerful trope of twenty-first century sharing. To tell the story of how yesterday’s digging and grazing became today’s googling and sampling, we need to look more closely at the way the unique properties of the modern information landscape come into focus by reference to the old commons economy: through the concepts of user rights, openness and enclosure.
