Intellectual property. Social embedding and functional equivalents
Outline
The project sets out to understand whether ownership of the public goods of knowledge and information needs to be reorganised in the post-industrial economy. Certain access restrictions have become problematic: how are they enforced and justified? What new structures are being developed to control and utilise knowledge and information, perhaps even without the need for exclusive ownership rights?
What conflicts emerge when a small number of players profit from far-reaching processes of intellectual exchange? What solutions may be feasible? During the first round of funding, the researchers intend to examine the ecologies of internet companies and online communities to generate empirically grounded, theoretical answers to these questions.
Project activities
Publications
Scientific publications
- Ecker, Marlen van den; Reitz, Tilman; Sevignani, Sebastian (2024): „The common production of economic advantages. Towards a labour theory of rent in informational capitalism“, (forth.).
- Theine, Hendrik; Sevignani, Sebastian (Hrsg.) (2024): „Media Property and Media Ownership: Current Challenges”, Special Issue of European Journal of Communication, (i.E.).
- Theine, Hendrik; Sevignani, Sebastian (Hrsg.) (2024): „Media Property: New Explorations in Media and Communication Studies”, Special Section of International Journal of Communication, (i.E.).
- Reitz, Tilman; Sevignani, Sebastian; Ecker, Marlen van den (2023a): “Eigentum im digitalen Kapitalismus. Ökonomie, Recht und Praxis”, In: Tanja Carstensen, Simon Schaupp, and Sebastian Sevignani (eds.): Theorien des digitalen Kapitalismus, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 264–84.
- Reitz, Tilman; Sevignani, Sebastian; Ecker, Marlen van den (2023b): “Zur Dialektik von Öffnung und Schließung – Ökonomie, Recht und Praxis immaterieller Güter”, In: Tanja Carstensen, Simon Schaupp, and Sebastian Sevignani (eds.): Theorien des digitalen Kapitalismus, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 264-84.
- Ecker, Marlen van den; Reitz, Tilman; Sevignani, Sebastian (2023c): “Between Openness and Exclusion. Property and Profitability in the Information Economy” , Working Paper Nr. 2, Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 294 »Strukturwandel des Eigentums«.
Media and podcasts
- Fischer, Georg (2022a): “Academic piracy”, In: blog of the Collaborative Research Centre “Structural Change of Property”. (published 19.01.2022)
- Fischer, Georg (2022b): “Die kleinste lizenzierbare Einheit: Schrumpfen oder Multiplikation von Eigentumsansprüchen?”, In: blog of the Collaborative Research Centre “Structural Change of Property”. (published 30.08.2022)
- Reitz, Tillmann (2022): “How the transition to Open Access is changing scientific publishing”, In: blog of the Collaborative Research Centre “Structural Change of Property”. (published 19.01.2022)
Lectures
- Sevignani, Sebastian and Marlen van den Ecker. Geistiges Eigentum und funktionale Äquivalente im Digitalen Kapitalismus. [Intellectual property and functional equivalents in Digital Capitalism]. Talk at the 41th Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS), Bielefeld University, Germany. (28.09.2022)
Events
- Sevignani, Sebastian, Marlen van den Ecker, Tilman Reitz, and Conrad Kunze: Organisation and Hosting of Book Launch “Theorien des digitalen Kapitalismus” [Theories of Digital Capitalism], Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. (01.02.2024)
- Co-organisation with the ThULB of “Wissenschaftliche Publikationskulturen im Zeitalter von Open Access.”. (30.11.-01.12.2023)
- Workshop series with Mercator Fellow Cecilia Rikap. (May 2023)
- participation at 41th Congress of the German Sociological Association “Polarisierte Welten” (DGS), Bielefeld University, Germany. (26.-30.09.2023)
- Co-Organisation of the workshop “The Materiality of Immaterial Goods“, SFB 294, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany, June 23-24, 2022 [invited discussants: Alexander Peukert, Cicilia Ricap, Parminder Seeth Singh, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Stefano Zacchiroli, Susanne Draheim/Kai von Luck, Stefano Zacchiroli, Philipp Staab, Barbara Brandl, Tobias Kämpf]
- Co-Organisation of the conference of the Netzwerk Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft “Eigentum, Medien, Öffentlichkeit”. WU Wien, Austria, May 12-14, 2022.
