Peer2Politics

Experience tells me you disagree with legal scholar Yochai Benkler cautiously and with great risk knowing that you, not he, will probably end up being wrong. I once wrote an MA thesis on intellectual property rights and democratic theory, and of everyone I read and wrote about, Benkler’s analysis of how the intellectual properties of the internet were providing a space to turn “consumers” into “users” proved most correct, much more correct than, say, Lawrence Lessig’s comparatively pessimistic view of intellectual property. At the time, I sided with Lessig. Benkler proved more right.