File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0112, message 106


From: dccarrol-AT-UCSD.Edu
Subject: Re: AUT: Software and Anarchism
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 03:48:51 GMT


Ronald Bettig's book _Copyrighting Culture: The Political Economy of 
Intellectual Property Rights_ is a good place to start.  He explicitly uses a 
Marxist approach to IP.  For information about software, there aren't too many 
Marxists doing work on it.  I have been very interested in the possibilities 
and limitations of the GPL, how it subverts copyright law.  Could you elaborate 
on what your interests in this are?
Dave Carroll


> > SF wrote:
> > 
> > Considering the latest crack downs on software "pirating"
> > (http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011211/tc/software_piracy_1.html) Im
> > curious if any one has essays on a marxist overview of copy righted
> > material, especially computer software.  It seems to me that
> > capitalists need copyright laws to prevent the free duplication of
> > software which in turn would reduce the labor value to an infinitly
> > low level, and remove creditability from the capitalist by
> > demonstrating the lack of exchange value.
> > 
> > Also I am looking for an explination of the differences between
> > anarchism and autonomist marxism...
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Samuel
> 
> 
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