Political Economy of Communications in India by Thomas Pradip Ninan

Author:Thomas, Pradip Ninan.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sage Publications India Pvt, Ltd -- eBooks

Current Contestations: The Ethics of Copyright

At the heart of the current debate on copyrights are three issues:

An economic one, related to the fact that IPR related value amounts to billions of dollars to the trade balance of the US and other developed countries—‘The economic value associated with intellectual property rights accounted for $327 billion and 5.5 million jobs in the United States in 1991’ (Monberg 1999).

A technological issue related to the translatability of information across and between technologies—copyright in a digital world.

The contentious maze of moral issues related to differing inter-pretations of IPR in general and copyright and patents in particular, held by governments, corporations and trade bodies on the one hand and public-domain activists and indigenous groups on the other. From a social perspective, issues related to the ethics of IPR reveal the vast gap that exists between what are largely ‘proprietorial’, private understandings of intellectual value and those that are firmly linked to the public domain and promote the social value of IPR over its economic value.

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