Table of Contents

Introduction to the Political Economy of Intellectual Property; Critical Perspectives on the History and Philosophy of Copyright; Who Owns the Message?: The Ownership and Control of Culture and Information; The (Political) Economics of Intellectual Property; Capitalism, the State, and Intellectual Property: A Case Study of Compulsory Licenses for Cable Retransmissions; The Law of Intellectual Property: The Videocassette Recorder and the Control of Copyrights; Recolonizing Communications and Culture: The Expanding Realm of International Intellectual Property Law; Intellectual Property and the Politics of Resistance.

About the Author

Ronald V. Bettig is assistant professor of communication at Pennsylvania State University.