Stealing empire: P2P, intellectual property and hip-hop subversion
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2008
TITLE AUTHOR(S): A.Haupt
KEYWORDS: CORPORATE OWNERSHIP, GLOBALIZATION
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 5285
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/5398
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/5398
TITLE AUTHOR(S): A.Haupt
KEYWORDS: CORPORATE OWNERSHIP, GLOBALIZATION
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 5285
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/5398
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/5398
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Abstract
Stealing Empire poses the question, "What possibilities for agency exist in the age of corporate globalisation?" Using the work of Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt as a point of entry, Adam Haupt delves into varied terrain to locate answers in this ground-breaking inquiry. He explores arguments about copyright via peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms such as Napster, free speech struggles, debates about access to information and open content licenses, and develops a politically incisive analysis of counterdiscourses produced by South African hip-hop artists. From 'empire stealing' through their commodification of countercultures to the 'stealing empire' activities of file-sharers, culture jammers and hip-hop activists, this book tells the story of people defining themselves as active, creative agents in a consumerist society. Stealing Empire is vital reading for law, media and cultural studies scholars who want to make sense of the ways in which legal and communication strategies are employed to secure hegemony.-
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