Atoms want to be free too! expanding the critique of in-tellectual property to physical goods

TripleC

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 66-76

  Söderberg, Johan ^a   Daoud, Adel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Economic sociology; Hackers; Hacking; Information; New media studies; Open hardware; Property; Science and technology studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856877033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1726670X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.31269/vol10iss1pp66-76     Document Type: Article

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