Collecting societies currently face major challenges stemming from: the reconfiguration of existing and emergence of new powerful players in the field of music distribution; the necessity of cross-territorial licensing options, and; the fragmentation of copyrights. This article presents an...

In the last 15 years a remarkable string of contentious mobilizations has emerged, challenging the normative and institutional frameworks that regulate how knowledge is produced, appropriated, and used. In this article I argue that these conflicts are more than contingent phenomena of...

In Conflicts in the Knowledge Society, Sebastian Haunss demonstrates how conflicts related to the international system of intellectual property have resulted in new cleavages in the knowledge society. He argues that new collective actors have emerged from these conflicts with the ability to...