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The rationale driving this approach to IP (intelectual property) and R&D is that private ownership, market forces, and profit (supported by public subsidies and tax breaks) incentivize innovation and efficient resource allocation, stimulating economic growth and job creation. But this does not stand up to evidence. Instead, by allowing these critical systems to primarily benefit private interest and corporations, we are failing to equitably develop and distribute products and services, adequately compensate workers and taxpayers, and maximize and stimulate innovation to address the intensifying and intersecting crises we now face.

In place of this, we need a new approach to the conceptualization, design, and implementation of IP and R&D; one that recognizes how critical these interconnected and entwined systems are to building a more equitable, sustainable, and democratic 21st-century economy. To do so, we recommend extending and embedding principles of democratic public control and ownership over IP and R&D, as well as reforming corporate behavior, to reverse encroachment and expand the public commons. This includes:

• Moving towards a public knowledge commons approach to IP rooted in the principles of public ownership and equitable access;
• Ensuring that publicly-developed IP is held for the public benefit;
• Increasing public research and development (R&D) with a focus on public benefit, addressing the intersecting economic, social, and ecological crises we now face, and confronting increasing global threats to humankind (such as climate change);
• Challenging corporations and monopoly power by linking public ownership and control of IP and R&D with efforts to increase competition in various economic sectors and diversify the ownership structure of enterprises and services (including cooperatives, publicly owned enterprises, and sustainable local and regionally based companies);
• Boosting workers’ rights and empowerment by giving workers a voice in new IP and R&D systems and institutions and removing IP rights and protections from compa- nies that abuse workers;
• Centering global solidarity and reparations (including technology transfers) to ac- knowledge and redress the role of the US and UK in extracting wealth, knowledge, and resources from the rest of the world (primarily the Global South) through centu- ries of colonialism, enslavement, and imperialism.

In order to see these principles embedded, we suggest a series of policy proposals that can guide a new approach to IP and R&D in the UK and the US.

https://thenextsystem.org/democratizing-knowledge?mc_cid=76bf4e9eb0&mc_eid=442f7bf244

Commentaire importé 

Kevin Gravier - 23 octobre 2020 à 9:55 :
Ceci me rappelle un très bon documentaire sur le sujet de la propriété intellectuelle: https://www.onf.ca/film/rip_remix_manifesto/