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Allison Fish is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her dissertation focuses on a series of reactions, and the implications of these reactions, to one individual's attempt to assert and enforce intellectual property claims to a series of yoga asanas.
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articles · Plagiarism in Context
18/2/2008 22:47 · 13 votes · no comments
Disparities Between Different Acts of Copying Without Attribution
In January 2007 the Switzerland-based multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis filed a lawsuit in the Chennai High Court against the nation of India alleging that the country’s patent law was both unconstitutional and in violation of the TRIPs agreement. This lawsuit transfixed the global medical community,...
articles · Comparing Copies in the Indian Context: Thoughts on Plagiarism
7/1/2008 23:35 · 36 votes · 4 comments
This article explores contemporary debates regarding the ownership and control of creative works by examining the different values attached to the act of copying in two types of knowledge making activities. Specifically, the following will address the construction of ethics surrounding
(1) The public reaction in 2006 to Kaavya Viswanathan’s plagiarism in her fictional account,...
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articles · Why you must be legally licensed to host fun™ on the internet
by Prashant · voted on 21/4/2008 00:59 · 40 votes · no comments
“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives a final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.”
-Marcel Duchamp,...
articles · Sharing on the Social Web
by Paul Jacobson · voted on 21/4/2008 00:56 · 29 votes · 4 comments
The Social Web (aka Web 2.0) is about three things: listening, conversing and sharing. Of the three, sharing is perhaps the most relevant in the context of the Commons in part because it is about sharing content, something that is almost taken for granted these days. Anyone who is active on the Social Web is familiar with a myriad content sharing sites ranging from Flickr (photo...
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articles · State of Piracy in the Philippines
by Sara Jane · commented on 24/10/2007 23:44 · 41 votes · 17 comments
Not many of us in law school would deny owning a copy or two of pirated media, be it a VCD, DVD, or a song downloaded from Limewire or BitTorrent. In a survey conducted among 100 law students, 44 responded in the affirmative when asked if it’s the cheap price alone that motivates them to patronise piracy. Other factors include the competitive quality of pirated discs, availability,...
articles · Source-ing Yoga: the Implications for the Commons
by alli.fish · commented on 11/8/2007 03:40 · 33 votes · 4 comments
Approximately five years ago two lawsuits relating to ownership claims in yoga grabbed international attention. These disputes, termed “the yoga wars”, set off a series of reactions among interested parties from around the world. This article will trace two reactions to Bikram Choudhury´s decision to apply for, and attempt to enforce copyright and trademarks claims to a specific...
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