Corynne mcsherry who owns academic work

Author: Jason Owen-Smith. Date: Mar. From: Science Vol. Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science. Document Type: Book review. Length: words. Translate Article. Drawing on legal, historical, and qualitative research, Corynne McSherry explores the propertization of academic work and shows how that process is shaking the foundations of the university, the professoriate, and intellectual property law.

The rush of universities and scholars to defend their knowledge as property dangerously undercuts a working covenant that has sustained academic life—and intellectual property law—for a century and a half.

As the value structure of the research university is replaced by the inequalities of the free market, academics risk losing a language for talking about knowledge as anything other than property. McSherry has written a book that ought to deeply trouble everyone who cares about the academy.

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Trade Paperback Textbooks. Since the passage of the Bayh—Dole Act in , Congress has made its own voice heard on the transfer of intellectual property from publicly funded research.

There is more to litigate now that data from publicly funded research and its economic value is transferred to private hands. The book neither resolves boundary disputes of intellectual property nor makes recommendations. It does shed light on the complexity of the problems and gives us alternative constructions based on a set of dualisms such as the gift meaning public commons economy versus market economy of knowledge production.

There is much in this book for those who seek a historical and legal background to contemporary disputes over knowledge production and ownership in academia. Areas left unexamined are the profound cultural changes taking place in the university including changes in the ethos of science resulting from the intense commodification of knowledge, issues awaiting exploration within the discourse of boundary domains.

The patenting of genomic information impedes research in important clinical areas. The genome has ostensibly been colonized and there is no legislated research exemption. More than any of the cases cited in the work, this state of affairs fulfills the book jacket's publicity imperative, which asserts that the battle over intellectual property "ought to deeply trouble everyone who cares about the academy.

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