January 28, 2005

Intellectual Property and the New Class Divisions

By PETER MONAGHAN

The concept of intellectual property has created a class division between "hackers" -- producers of information, be they academics, creative artists, or others -- and a suffocating "new ruling class" that has seized ownership of this property via patents, copyrights, and trademarks. So argues McKenzie Wark, a professor of media and cultural studies at New School University, in A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard University Press).

Q. What's new about what this so-called ruling class

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