Treating IP rights as ordinary property was a radical historical innovation.

Evidence

The NIEO had made the radical claim that much of the world’s knowledge was an inalienable part of the common heritage of mankind. Corporate advocates of IP responded with a claim that was equally radical and equally at odds with mainstream and neoliberal economic discourse: that IP rights were simple analogues of other property rights. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 200

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharply distinguishes two competing radical framings of knowledge: NIEO’s common-heritage claim vs the corporate analogue-to-property claim.
• XREF: connects to: International IP harmonization created a new knowledge feudalism — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2192

Broader Connections

• International IP harmonization created a new knowledge feudalism #expands (0.78) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2192