CONTENTS:-
Introduction: Products of the Mind
• Intellectual property: Aspirin
• Propriety Information: Sports Reporting
• From Intellectual property to proprietary information
• Privacy: Surveillance after September 11
• The privacy-Intellectual property-Information connection
• Rule making: Then, now and tomorrow
• Intellectual property in other cultures
• The Global Governance of Intellectual property
• The World Intellectual property Organization
• The International Union for the protection of new varieties of plants
• The World Trade Organization
• Is the global governance of Intellectual property working
• Global intellectual property policy conundrums
• Global protection of pharmaceutical patents
• Intellectual property rights on life
• Intellectual Property in the digital world
• Lack of consensus and an opening for crime
• Information
• Who has/owns/controls information?
• Information as a commodity
• The value of information
• Owning information about the planet
• Information about weather
• Information about regions: Remote-sensing data
• Location , location, location
• Data for both military and civilian purposes
• Owning information about people
• Mixed public and private goods
• Secret data: Carnivore, echelon and related government-owned systems
• Data as a club good: Iceland’s human data
• Data as a private good: Data owned by firms and others
• Digitized personal information
• Privacy
• Privacy as an information space
• Personal information: Content of the information space
• From the completely private inner self to the intimate circle
• Gatekeepers, controlling the flow of personal information
• Privacy rights
• Exercises privacy rights: Locating the boundary
• Legitimate and illegitimate boundary crossings
• Privacy in the information age
• Violating the public-private border
• Trespasses: Breaches of the Public-Private boundary
• Sequestering information: Prohibiting the flow of information across the public-private boundary
• Individual’s privacy interests
• Guarding the border
• Gaining control over personal data
• Norms obligating others to respect our privacy
• Actions individuals take to protect their privacy
• A partial victory or a partial failue?
• Conclusion
• A dangerous historical juncture?
• Creeping commodification and privacy violations
• Questions remain.
