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Mat Callahan is a musician and author. He founded seminal world-beat band, Looters, the artists' collective, Komotion International, and produced the revival of James Connolly's "Songs of Freedom". He’s authored four books, Sex, Death and the Angry Young Man (1993); Testimony (2000); The Trouble With Music (2005); and The Explosion of Deferred Dreams (2017). Jim Rogers is a lecturer in communications at the School of Communications, Dublin City University, Ireland. His research interests centre on the political economy of the media. His first book, The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age was published in 2013. Beyond this, his research has been published in a host of international peer-review journals and various edited collections.Unwraps intellectual property’s supposed enigma in an accessible fashion. Power, profits, piracy: all are explored here with real arguments and facts. Provocative.
Alan Story, University of Kent (retd)
Combining analytical and narrative approaches, this book is an excellent way to get to grips with the current political economy of intellectual property.
Christopher May, Lancaster University
The idea of Intellectual Property is, quite literally, an attempt to monopolize ideas. In this exciting volume, the ideological basis of IP is critiqued, and the options for resistance examined.
John Quiggin, University of Queensland
A Critical Guide… is as much a handbook that suggests radical thought and action as it is an intellectuals’ guide to intellectual property.
Jonah Raskin, Socialism and Democracy
Callahan and Rogers have put together a critical guide that tells the truth about intellectual property. Everybody should read it.
Peter Drahos, Australian National University