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Adam Haupt: iSummit '08 Keynote Address

Enclosing the Commons - for Dummies: Creativity, citizenship and media ownership

In his address, Haupt argues that legal threats issued by SAB Miller and Wiley Publishing to culture jammers Laugh It Off Media and Mail & Guardian Online, respectively, provide important perspectives on democracy and commons enclosure. Both the Wiley "for Dummies" and SAB Miller "Black Labour White Guilt" cases offer insights into corporations' tendencies to employ narrow understandings of IP to protect their own interests - often at the expense of the public interest. However, we should be wary of reducing both media incidents to 'David and Goliath' struggles. The story of commons enclosure and limitations on free speech is not always as dramatic. Media ownership offers one example of the ways in which democracy is perverted and the South African media landscape is no exception in this regard.

See the slides from this presentation here: http://www.slideshare.net/iCommonsiSummit08/enclosing-the-commons-for-dummies-creativity-citizenship-and-media-ownership-presentation/


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