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List of figures
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List of tables
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Acknowledgements
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List of abbreviations
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1 Introduction
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1.1 Why now?
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1.2 Politicization of IP
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3 |
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1.3 The organization of this book
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2 The politicization of intellectual property
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2.1 How IP has become political
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12 |
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2.2 The history of intellectual property rights
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21 |
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2.3 The current legal and institutional system
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2.4 Legitimatory narratives
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33 |
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2.5 Current developments and conflicts
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3 Conflict and change in the knowledge society
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3.1 Information, network or knowledge society?
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3.2 Theories of the knowledge society
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3.3 Going beyond the stage model
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3.4 Theories of social change and conflicts revisited
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3.5 Change and conflict in the knowledge society
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4 Software patents in Europe
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4.1 The institutional context of the software patents conflict
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95 |
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4.2 The development of the conflict
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4.3 The network of actors
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119 |
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4.4 Frames
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129 |
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4.5 Bringing the threads together
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4.6 Software patents and the knowledge society
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5 Access to medicines
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5.1 The context of the conflict about access to medicines
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143 |
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5.2 From TRIPS to Doha
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147 |
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5.3 The network of actors
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159 |
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5.4 Framing the issue
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173 |
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5.5 Context, actors and frames of the access to medicines conflict
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5.6 Access to medicines – a conflict of the knowledge society
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6 Pirates and commoners
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6.1 The rise of Pirate Parties
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187 |
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6.2 Pirate frames
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194 |
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6.3 Pirates in the knowledge society
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200 |
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6.4 Creative Commons
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6.5 The Creative Commons frame
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210 |
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6.6 Creative Commons and the conflicts in the knowledge society
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7 Conclusion: new cleavages and new collective actors
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7.1 Patterns of difference and similarity
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214 |
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7.2 Beyond policy conflicts – patterns of conflict and change in the knowledge society
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223 |
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7.3 A movement in the making?
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References
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Interviews
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Appendix 1: Documents used for the frame analysis in Chapter 5
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Index
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