Rethinking the intellectual common goods: tensions between appropriation and liberation of intellectual goods and works in the digital age

ARIEL VERCELLI

Boston

Workshop; Free Culture Research Workshop 2009; 2009

Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University

This paper is based on concepts merged from my Ph.D thesis. Its main purpose is the discussion   about   [1]  the  relationship  between   the   design   of   digital technologies and the changes in the regulation of author's right and copy right globally. More specifically, this document is focused in analyzing [2] the changes in the exercise of author's right and copy right, [3] the new business models and the commodification of intellectual goods and [4] the process of co­construction between regulations and digital technologies. In the final part, and opening further discussion, this paper presents [5] a short conclusion about the articulation between cultural management and the digital technology policy. Unfortunately, studies and researches on these topics have resulted dangerously neglectful in the scientific, cultural and political agendas in Latin American countries. For the same reason, this paper (and the supporting research on the subject) aims to initiate and strengthen researches on these topics.