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5:00 pm Fandom + Piracy @ Online
Fandom + Piracy @ Online
Mar 4 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Fandom + Piracy @ Online
Online Event Location:  https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q6jDS6rLRCemB8Jws8WbKA  Pirates who threaten to invert power relations through appropriating things less tangible than ships and bodies have become a growing concern for the managers of twenty-first-century economic globalization. Appropriating, modifying, and sharing a range of less concrete but equally crucial objects, intellectual property “robbers” today traffic in images, music, and software. Although business analysts regard this as a novel problem, supposedly precipitated by the unprecedented importance of “knowledge” as a force of economic production, historians of science and law tell stories of intellectual property theft that predate … Continued