Case 5 - The Anxious Prop

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EDITOR’S NOTE
The Intellectual Property Issue is a labor that is already more
than a year old... and, like in previous Cases, we wanted to dive
in it because we know its complexity is broad enough to allow
for diverse ideas to instigate our self-inquiry. We began the con-
versation as an effort to parse for ourselves a genuine, collective
definition of intellectual property, mainly in relation to origin,
knowledge, and community. The work in Case 3 with Paul Ryan
and his scholarship on Charles Peirce lead us to intense discus-
sions about what is this so-called infinite community of inquiry.
Likewise, in Case 4, reading into Gerald Raunig and his notion
of abstract machines and concatenations has also raised questions
about how to take triadic and network thinking so to evolve
compositionally beyond. In cyclical motion, these discussions
are inevitably filtered through the epistemic thing as defined by
Hans Jörg Rheinberger in Case 2.
As you will see and read in Case 5, Co-directors Miodrag Kuč
and Jan Bovelet have been nurturing that motion on behalf of
the collective. The Intellectual Property Issue is then an effort
that picks up from Leibniz’ Leib-Seele Pentagramm to reflect
upon instinct, intuition, and knowledge, review what is intellec-
tual property today in lieu of the digital habitat, and how it may
build tomorrow. As usual, we have opened the conversation to
our friends and colleagues as an eternal return to think about
this, so to shine their lights filtering through our collective
prism built from our conversation the feuilleton and the instal-
lation that accompanies it. Shine on you crazy diamond.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISSUE
by Miodrag Kuč and Jan Bovelet
3 Introduction to Intellectual 52 Exchanges with Gerald Raunig
Property Issue and Florian Dombois
Miodrag Kuč and Jan Bovelet Luis Berríos-Negrón The issue of intellectual property has gained new momentum
with the dawn of the digital habitat. Today, in an ever-expanding
6 Contributor Profiles 55 Digital Sublime collective immersion in identically reproducible things, almost
Mario Carpo everything can be copied in principle—changing the position of
9 Case Notes on the Metaphysics origin, knowledge, and collectivity in cultural topology. This is
of the Digital 59 How to steal architecture a change that has massive impacts on the concept of intellectual
Jan Bovelet Tim Gough property in the whole spectrum of our Everyday Life.
13 Splintered into Capsules 63 Palace of Fate Case 5 has been in the making for quite a while, and was pre-
Miodrag Kuč Carrie Roseland pared by way of different pre-cases, setting the topic and form-
ing the collective. It explores which novel forms, paradigms,
18 Dropping the Internet 67 Drawing Out and absurdities appear in cadence with the rampant prolifera-
Aram Bartholl Intellectual Property tion of the digitalization of evermore aspects of society. Of the
Anna Kostreva many facets involved in intellectual property, AXP has put the
19 The Prism focus on the change of the status of origin and originality in the
Jonas Marx [≠] Case 5 digital habitat, trying to explore the implication this bears for
Bibliographical references the production of knowledge and collective creative processes.
23 Eis Eis Baby are online at As always, the case operates at the intersection of artistic and
Alex Head www.theanxiousprop.org scientific perspectives and the inclusion of the audience in the
installation.
27 On Dialogical Spaces –
Spaces of Communication The central props of the installation are fire and the prism; fire as
Gabi Schillig a metaphor for origin and originality as well as for knowledge,
and the prism as a metaphorical model for the purposeful mod-
31 In the Abyss, but Vivacious ification of given things, of course with a view to the Snowden
Florian Sievers incident and the new possibilities for totalitarian politics that are
also inherent in the binary coding of everything.
38 Data and Spaces
Ben Cope In an experimental approach, different instances of fire will be
mediated, multiplied, and copied through different analogue
41 A Phantasmagoric Army and digital ‘prisms’, inviting the audience to experiment with
of Resistance originals and their modification hands-on.
Gabriella Coleman
47 The Many Ones
Julia Gill
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Experiments into collective writing and the dynamics of collective authorship, with a moded etherpad as technological base. Objective Dialogues: Y-Table. Installation for the initiation of dialogical collective insight processes by way of material objects.
Invited contribution for Translation Acts, project of Institut für Raumexperimente on the occasion of The World is not Fair, For Wastelend Twinnings Network Forum 2012 at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik,
Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin July 2012. Image courtesy of Sabine Schulz Blank. Berlin, September 2012. Image courtesy of Robin Taylor.
Working collectively with the pad in IRE’s pavillion. Image courtesy of Sabine Schulz Blank. Objective Dialogues setup. Image courtesy of Partick Kochlik.
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Aram Bartholl works at the interface of University Press. Her new book is Hacker, Anna Kostreva is an artist, architect, and tivity (edited with Gene Ray and Ulf Wuggenig,
internet, culture, and reality. He is a member Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: From 4chan Lolcats urban researcher living and working in Berlin. 2011) and Factories of Knowledge. Industries of
of the art collective F.A.T. Lab. Beside numer- to Anonymous Everywhere for Verso. She studied architecture in New York City at Creativity (2013).
ous lectures, workshops and performances his Benjamin Cope (Ph.D) Lecturer in the Cooper Union and was granted a Fulbright Carrie Roseland is a translator and artist.
works has been exhibited at MoMA (NY), Critical Urbanism at the European Humani- fellowship to lead an urban research pro- Her interest is in collective practices and strate-
The Pace Gallery (NY), and [DAM] Berlin. ties University, Vilnius, and also works in the ject in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2009. gies of production. She has worked with groups
Luis Berríos-Negrón has recently Education Department at Zachęta National She is currently pursuing research concerning including BULL, Piratbyrån, LaborBerlin and
exhibited in Paul Ryan’s Threeing project at Gallery of Art, Warsaw. Has written on and the historical forces that persist and shape cities. The Anxious Prop. She was involved in actions
Documenta13, and in the Future Archive at participated in a range of urban and cultural Miodrag Kuč is an interdisciplinary artist to support the Pirate Bay during their trial in
the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. He was Danish initiatives in Eastern Europe. Musician in the and urban theorist trained as architect / urban Stockholm in 2009. She has translated for the
International Visiting Artist and is now in res- Belarusian band Nagual, member of the NGO planner in various cultural settings. His work Schwules Museum Berlin, the Berlin Docu-
idence at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Stowarzyszenie My and conductor of the vege- explores the role of ephemeral structures in un- mentary Forum and Assassinate Assange.
Recent publications include Digital Utopia table orchestra Paprykalaba. certain urban conditions and spatial appropri- Gabi Schillig founded her studio in
(Akademie der Künste), and Space Matters Florian Dombois is an artist with a spe- ations of marginal social groups. He is founder Berlin in 2004 after studying Architecture at
(Ambra Verlag). Luis is Visiting Lecturer at cial attention for sound. He is Professor at of the studio ParaArtFormations which moves the University of Applied Sciences Coburg, and
the Münster School of Architecture. the Zurich University of the Arts, where he at the intersection of urban studies, perform- completing postgraduate studies in Conceptual
Jan Bovelet studied architecture and heads the Transdisciplinarity Research Focus. ative-planning, artistic interventions and mic- Design at the Städelschule Frankfurt. In 2012,
philosophy at TU Berlin. He worked as an His own work focuses on models, landforms, ropolitics. Currently he is teaching at Critical she was appointed Professor for Spatial Design
architect in Berlin and as scientific assistant abilities, scientific and technical fictions. Urbanism at the EHU in Vilnius. at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Scienc-
at different universities. He is member of the He lives in Cologne and Bern. Jonas Marx lives in Berlin and works as es at the Faculty of Design. Before she was
research network Netzwerk Architekturwissen- Julia Gill (Dr.-Ing.) is an independent ar- an artist. In his installations, considering Han- teaching at the Institute for Transmedia Design
schaft. He has been in theoretical publications chitect an writer based in Berlin. Her research nah Arendt, he explores the meaning of what at the Berlin University of Arts—UdK.
and practical research projects in different and publishing is primarily focussed on hous- could be called ‘Welthaltigkeit‘. He studied Florian Sievers works as a journalist
languages and countries. ing and every-day-architecture with a further architecture and philosophy. Beside his artistic and author in Berlin. In recent years, he is in
Mario Carpo (Prof. Dr.) teaches architec- interest on standards and standardisation. practice, he teaches architectural theory at the search for the roots of repetitive dance music
tural history and theory at the Yale School of She presides the Netzwerk Architekturwissen- Technical University Berlin. and sprechgesang (recitative, parlando or rap).
Architecture and at the School of Architecture schaft e.V. and has been lecturing and teaching Jonathan Pierini is a typographer and Currently, he is part of the Goethe-Institut
of Paris-La Villette (currently on leave). at numerous international universities. graphic designer. After graduating from the Africa culture project Ten Cities, in which he is
He has taught and lectured in several universi- Lukas Hagel is a graphic designer work- ISIA Urbino, he continues at the Type and co-editing a book on club culture in Africa and
ties in Europe, the United States, and Canada. ing in Berlin. He studied political science and Media master program in The Hague. In 2010 Europe to be published in 2014. It is not the
His research and publications focus on the re- communication at Sciences Po Paris. As Horst Jonathan works in London at Dalton Maag. first time he deals with cultures that are foreign
lationship among architectural theory, cultural Matrix, he plays sound files. He is currently Researcher and RTD Professor to him. As a West German, he previously put
history, and the history of media and informa- Alex Head was born in London and cur- at the Free University of Bolzano, Faculty of out Mandarinenträume, a compilation of elec-
tion technology. rently works in the UK and Berlin. He studied a Design and Art. tronic music from East Germany on the label
Gabriella (Biella) Coleman holds the Bachelors of Arts in Sculpture & Environmental Gerald Raunig is a philosopher and art Permanent Vacation in 2010.
Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Art at The Glasgow School of Art (2007). He is theoretician. He works at the Zurich University Sebastian Weindauer studies archi-
Literacy at McGill University. Trained as a currently studying a Masters in Spatial Strate- of the Arts (ZHDK) and is a coordinator for tecture at the TU Berlin, working for two
cultural anthropologist, she researches, writes, gies at Weissensee School of Art, Berlin. Alex the eipcp (European Institute for Progressive years for the Chair of Theory of Architecture.
and teaches on computer hackers and digital is an artist and educator interested in creating Cultural Policies) of the international research In addition to his focus on architecture,
activism. Her first book on Free Software, non-hierarchical networks of artists, researchers projects republicart.net, transform.eipcp.net he also has worked in film production. In 2012
“Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthet- and citizens. He is currently Co-Director of the and creatingworlds.eipcp.net. Recent books: he organized and headed the seminar “Raum-
ics of Hacking” was published by Princeton Wasteland Twinning Network e.V. A Thousand Machines (2010), Critique of Crea- und Zeitkonzepte in Architektur und Film”.
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CASE NOTES ON THE METAPHYSICS OF THE DIGITAL
by Jan Bovelet
Some 300 years ago, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz wrote a small
text that became one of the central treatises of 18th century met-
aphysics and of modern philosophy. Martin Heidegger expressed
this prominently as the essential conception of „the metaphysic
of the modern age“ [1] * in Leibniz.
Leibniz wrote the Monadology in and for an analogue world,
and he did not pay particular attention in this text as to whether
logical entities such as binary truth values can be considered
monads in a meaningful way. In the then contemporary context
of debates on metaphysics, Leibniz turned against scholasticism
in competition for the best rational system with philosophers
such as Francis Bacon, René Descartes, and Baruch de Spinoza.
The central concern within the Monadology were the classical
metaphysical questions concerning reality: of what does it
consist, how does it develop, and what is God’s role in all this?
Leibniz dealt with these questions under a range of different
perspectives, making connections between logic, theology,
mathematics, cosmogony, jurisprudence and more, thus truly
attempting a full metaphysical system.
The attempt of our text is much more modest, only drawing
on a few of Leibniz’ central claims about monads in order to
informally introduce the realm of metaphysical thought. A few
of Leibniz’ thoughts will easily suffice to establish a common
ground with which to sketch the basic metaphysical considera-
tions relevant to the digital habitat. Why Leibniz? His Monado-
logy is particularly interesting for case 5’s topical triad of origin,
knowledge, and collectivity, as Leibniz is one of the key figures
of modern logic and its practical implementation by way of
digital calculus.
What is a Monad?
Cutout from the collective writing pad, programmed by Philipp Bosch. In Leibniz’ metaphysical conception, reality as a whole consists
of a well-ordered multiplicity of monads. Monads are simple
substances, and as „atoms of nature“ [2] they are the base for all
composed or aggregated substances. In principle, everything
can be reduced to its simple parts because everything is either a
simple monad or composed out of monads.
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Five features seem to be of particular interest that is not the central point from the perspec- habitat inscribes itself within the collective con- be an analysis of language, and not metaphys-
for a metaphysical examination of the digital tive on their role in society. Digital entities can sciousness expressed by science fiction stories ical speculation about the first elements of
habitat: also never be completely closed as they are such as the Terminator series known for a red- reality. But this analytic position, that is also
(1) Uniqueness: Every monad is only identical written in one and the same language — eyed skynet. Finally the digital habitat can be common in many economic and political argu-
with itself and nothing else, so there are no two binary coding—and thus can’t be completely al- interpreted as internally differentiated because ments, is a comfortable, if not too comfortable
identical monads to be found anywhere. ien to one another; the history of code breaking it is always dependent on the operational oppo- one; understanding and evaluating the prolific
(2) Closedness: monads don’t communicate and cryptography is full of examples thereof. sition between different binary values, a plastic ubiquity of digitalization cannot only consist of
with one another. Instead, they are all ‘pro- On the other hand, digital entities are rela- example of which can be seen particularly well an analysis of what there is. The diagnosis that
grammed’ by God from the very beginning to tional as the only input a digital algorithm can in the important function of feedback loops in everyday life becomes increasingly digitalized
coexist seamlessly in a „pre-stabilized harmo- compute is constellations of other digital code; parametric design processes. is an obvious one—but what does it mean? Is it
ny“ [3] Leibniz’ famous word that monads don’t or, in metaphysical language, the possibility of It would appear that the digital habitat cannot good, is it bad, and for whom? Does digitaliza-
have windows[4] expresses exactly that, thereby a digital algorithm can only become real if it is be interpreted as an aggregate of monads but tion as such predetermine particular technical
implying a rigid determinism. put to work with some digital input—if it inter- as a monad as a whole—we can make clear and social developments? How can a thing that
(3) Relationalism: every monad can only be ful- acts with other digital code, otherwise it stays differentiations between specific digital algo- is in principle indefinitely replicable have a
ly determined by its relation to all other mon- mute. As for the question of whether digital rithms (for example by way of their function) value? These questions cannot be answered in a
ads, expressed in Leibniz’ assertion that every entities have an internal appetition: believers in but nevertheless cannot conceptualize them pure analytic fashion; they demand also moral
monad is a living mirror—a miroir vivant— AI claim that in principle it is possible to plant as monads. The digital habitat seems to be a judgements. Based on his metaphysics, Leibniz
of the whole universe.[5] entelechy into digital entities, for example the man-made phenomenon that doesn’t comply argued that our world is the best of all possible
(4) Appetition: The activity of monads is due recent progress of ‘autonomous’ drones. But all with the metaphysics of modernity, or at least worlds; without any metaphysics, it might be
to an inner vital principle, called an „Appeti- that advancement still takes place on a mimeti- not with Leibniz. It’s true that post-modernity difficult to say anything substantial about the
tion“ [6], that has its root in Leibniz’ interpreta- cal level. Finally, as for internal differentiation, has altogether abandoned metaphysics and digital habitat at all.
tion of Aristotle’s concept of entelechy. digital entities always generate the same output its search for the fundamental elements of
(5) Internal differentiation: Even though for the same input. Similar to the issue of reality. But, with the digital habitat slowly but
monads are simple substances, they enfold appetition, the internal differentiation of digital surely becoming the dominant manifestation * All quotes my translation from the German.
multiplicities that develop according to their entities until now still happens on a mimetical of everyday life, perhaps it is time to seriously [≠] References www.theanxiousprop.org
relation to other monads. level: they can be programmed to self-differ- reconsider metaphysical perspectives. What is
entiate among particular parameters, but as a digital entity in an ontological sense? How
Can a digital entity be of yet these parameters have to be determined do they develop and can they have a real life of
conceptualized as a monad? externally—deus ex machina. their own? And will we be confronted with new
Momentarily moving the God-question to one However, taken as a whole, the digital habi- Gods if ‘old’ internet leviathans like Google and
side, how does the concept of the monad play tat seems to be interpretable under Leibniz’ Facebook or little known, rather clandestine
out in the realm of the digital habitat? It seems concept of the monad. All digital code together ones such as the NSA are successful in their
that the answer to this question is dependent with its material hardware could be conceived quest for total dominance of the net?
om whether one looks at single digital entities as one unique monad. Closed, as it is not com- Questions such as these with a metaphysical
or at all digital code as a whole. patible with everything non-digital, a problem overtone are often dismissed from the outset
One digital entity, say a digital image or a digital that is frequently addressed under the header of as unscientific. In particular the tradition of
algorithm to manipulate images, is not unique, the analogue-digital gap. Relational because its analytical philosophy has criticised meta-
as one of its fundamental qualities is that it meaning only unfolds in relation with non-dig- physics as a failed discipline on the basis of its
can be identically copied. Of course every ital entities. And as having an appetitus of its linguistic shortcomings. The basic argument
digital entity can be described as the status of a own, mirrored for example in the developmen- runs that, for us, there can’t be anything that
particular piece of hardware, spatio-temporally tal dynamic of the digitalization. This can we cannot express adequately in language—
different from all other digital hardware, but be observed by the manner in which the digital thus the first philosophy, if there is one, must
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SPLINTERED INTO CAPSULES
by Miodrag Kuč
Scene 1 Two classical tourists at the big crossroad nervously
looking for a fast ride to Airport by using their newest GPS-
based Taxi-App. In the meantime, empty taxis are passing.
Waiving the hand looks rather like ‘Third-World’ idea. ‘On top
of that, MY taxi has number 7634 and it is coming in 6 minutes’—
answering one of them to himself. Idea to share the taxi to the
Airport didn’t come to their mind. Or, they just didn’t have an
app for that.
New forms of capsular
‘They will equip themselves with various devices with which to
perform complicated roles which are beyond their capabilities as
living creatures’
— Kisho Kurokawa, Homo Movens, 1969
Urban fragmentation, one of the ever-discussed topics in the
social sciences, gets a new character with digitalization of every-
day life. In contrast to pre-digital polarisation through physical
separation (from medieval wall till gated communities), con-
temporary moment has been characterized by diversification of
engineered services (clouds), novel ideological streams (green /
zero-emissions city) and social requests (innovation).
We could even claim that digitalization alters fragmentation
on a qualitative level, providing new forms of ‘capsular civi-
lisation’ [1], this time (differ to monk in cavern) ‘managed’ by
our Internet provider, big-data servers and security agencies.
Condition of post-political[2] additionally facilitate absence of
critical thinking inside digital habitat, shifting citizen into ‘user’
eternally comfortable with cloud of liking, sharing, recom-
mending, etc. Insufficiency of ‘real and proper political’ [3],
dissensus and conflict as a driving force, supported by various
moderation strategies and ever-extended terms&conditions,
gives fragile impression of open-society prepared for multi-
ple-compromise in the name of common progress. Further-
more, de-dramatization of public space as political arena and
Scan of the first page of Leibniz’ handwriting of the Monadology, ca. 1714.
emergence of new masses[4] run by digital technologies, opens
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up another fields of politically-possible, this New forms of autocratic governance-be- spaces of fragmentation depending what is website ‘services’ and right away exchanged
time many being sum of capsules. yond-the-state[7] undoubtedly assist in splin- ‘protected’ and for how long. some stupid hip-hop song for a pdf-book of
tering not just large parts of society through David Harvey. To find a good kebab, some
Beyond ideologies: Knowledge-based access to basic infrastructures´[8] but most Moreover, divorcing intellectual labour from additional effort is needed.
urban development essentially the ones inside infrastructure itself. the means of production[9] and framing it
Knowledge-driven urban development has Condition in which large portion of society, inside expert systems, allows polarized spaces K67_Urban Router has been developed as an
become a new mantra of pragmatic politics, although technologically literate, is out of to be far from each other. alternative infrastructure and urban para-site
which emerge as a consequence of global labour even if there is so much to be improved, in order to test possibilities of creating collec-
competitiveness and fear of demographic / clearly shows now different policies reshape Does Apple-Campus represent a new Disney- tive digital items inside digital public space.
environmental / nuclear catastrophe. List once compact body of knowledge. land in the age of commodified knowledge? As a platform for multiple urban explorations
of ‘empty signifiers’ [5] such ‘as Green / World- Could Apple-City become next level of the K67_Urban Router aimed to express critique of
Class / Zero-CO2 / Creative City has been Intellectual Property as a catalyst Smart-City concept? its site’s status quo both in terms of analog and
recently extended with Smart-City, the image of further spatial fragmentations digital situation.
of bright urban future embedded in efficiency ‘Thus a profound social reorganization is required Enormously complex ‘sociotechnical processes’
and performability of network infrastructures. to transform knowledge into something that can of contemporary urbanity[10] have as conse- Located in area dominated by tourism and
This rediscovering of knowledge as a urban de- be sold’ quence engagement of users in systems they fast decline of micro-public spaces, this
velopment factor ignores the fact that all cities — Bob Jessop, The Future of the Capitalist State, 2002 hardly understand. Submission of life under social-space stimulated discussions in the
are build as accumulation of certain knowledge technological domination and unknown con- provincial ‘under the tree’ manner. Beyond
forms and that knowledge is a collectively Socio-spatial consequences of exclusive rights sumption of many extraneous goods reinforce tactical urbanism and ‘intervention’ objective,
produced common resource.[6] over knowledge could be seen in raising the already existing capsule built outside the soon it became the only place in the area to rest
quantity of research hubs, creative quar- digital. Customization of services gives another without necessity to consume, meeting point
Thus Smart-City seems to be far from horizon- ters, tech-clusters and university sub-urban illusion of individual control over technol- for local bottle-collectors and urban drifters.
tal in its political structure; users and provid- campuses. Those new-formed infrastructures ogy, keeping encapsulated units away from
ers are divided not physically but through set of knowledge increase polarization on spatial, collective efforts and unpredictable situations. Access to K67_Cloud (local intranet) allowed
of ‘properties’, juridical, technical but more cultural and political level, by giving access to Splintered into capsules and arranged under anonymous rambler to join on-going process
significantly intellectual. Knowledge in the one that could pass multi-leveled system of digitalization principles inside ‘smart urban of deep mapping of the site by questioning the
future ‘urban smartness’ is not seen as collec- formal education or strict corporative rules. experience’, becomes main prerequisite for the technological and juridical restrictions in the
tive amenity but strictly regulated system of Open University campus, formerly symbolic new social order in which knowledge becomes relation between digital media and the city.
exclusive rights given to particular economic representation of disagreement and political fuzzy entity. Gathering opinions, free exchange of all
and political elites. debate, becomes carefully rendered picture of kind of files, locally accessible jukebox and
‘cosmopolitan’ place for young researchers and K67_Urban Router: mapping tools, non-surprisingly turn into
By turning knowledge to ‘fictitious commodity’ intellectual expats, bubbled in their individual- Collective Offline-hub collective development of once abandoned lot.
(Castre, Jessop, Bridge) under the principles ly tailored programs. More and more often we Scene 2 Digital-Zombie is looking for a free (Un)fortunately, by over passing Smart-City
of digitalization, we enter the age of social are speaking about knowledge ‘products’ that wireless-signal and cheep kebab. Passing radar this accumulation of data will never
engineering and restructuring under the contain certain standards, codes or limitations beside eye-catchy red kiosk he noticed K67- come into consideration for ‘planning’ due to
logic of machine-readable patterns; royalties, (just think about scientific journals). Cloud sticker on it. ‘It might be a way to grab its strong voice of disagreement.
tuition-fees, licences and trademarks become some free W-lan for a while; at least to check my
widely accepted, making a strict line between In that sense Intellectual Property becomes emails’ idea came straightforwardly. To his dis- [≠] References www.theanxiousprop.org
collective knowledge and possession of exclu- mechanism of segregation especially with its appointment, strange message appeared: ‘You
sive rights. expansion in duration, typology and scope. are offline now. But that won’t hurt…’ Confused
That flexibility allows appearance of the novel but intrigued, he looked through the offline
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