M Fredriksson
Biographic Data
| ID | 18848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Fredriksson |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Fredriksson |
| SIGNATURE | FREDRIKSSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3309-3840 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Back to the Future or Knowledge Reborn
This article explores the interplay between traditional knowledge (TK), artificial intelligence (AI), and the law, with a focus on challenges and opportunities in protecting TK. TK, often intrinsic to the way of life of indigenous communities, faces threats of erosion, misappropriation, and neglect due to both modernisation and historical injustices. While digitisation and AI present promising tools for preserving and reconstructing lost TK, thes…
The politics of canons and classics
In the spring of 2021, the Swedish Academy accused the national socialist website Nordfront of copyright infringement for publishing excerpts of poems by three National Romantic poets. Even though the works were in the public domain, the Academy argued that the publication violated §51 of the Swedish copyright law, also known as the protection of classics, which protects works by deceased authors that are of cultural significance against being re…
Moral rights and the protection of classics
This article examines §51 of the Swedish Copyright Act 1960, generally known as ‘the protection of classics’ in relation to international discourses on copyright in the mid-twentieth century. The provision in §51 protects works of cultural significance by deceased authors and artists against reproductions that are considered offensive, even if the works are in the public domain. This article analyses the arguments and motives that led Swedish leg…
Protecting the classics in Swedish copyright law
This article discusses §51 of the Swedish copyright law, known as “the protection of classics”, as a cultural policy intervention. §51 protects culturally significant works by deceased authors against reproductions that are considered offensive, even if the works are in the public domain and thus not protected by copyright. The article provides a brief overview of the origin of §51 and analyses potential cases of violation between 1960 and 2020, …
Ownership of Knowledge
Mediatised marketplaces
Digital marketplaces are standard and pervasive sites to trade and exchange material consumer goods worldwide. Yet the media characteristics of different, situated marketplaces have received relatively sporadic attention from the field of media and communication studies, despite the otherwise prominent disciplinary interest in digital technologies, platforms and processes of mediatisation. This paper coalesces perspectives from social, geography …
Balancing community rights and national interests in international protection of traditional knowledge
This article analyses how local, national and international interests are reflected in India’s attempts to protect traditional knowledge through the formation of a Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL). It compares how the digital library is contextualised within India’s domestic policy with how it is presented to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The article argues that WIPO has endorsed the Indian initiative and embrac…
India’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library and the Politics of Patent Classifications
This article analyzes India's Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) as a potential intervention in the administration of patent law. The TKDL is a database including a vast body of traditional medical knowledge from India, aiming to prevent the patenting and misappropriation of that knowledge. This article contextualizes the TKDL in relation to documentation theory as well as to existing research on the uses of databases to protect traditi…
Dilemmas of protection
This article argues that since genetic resources carry cultural significance to many Indigenous communities, the protection of genetic resources should be considered in relation to the protection of Indigenous cultural heritage. It compares international regulations of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge to those of traditional cultural expressions, focusing particularly on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and its i…
Information Commons Between Enclosure and Exposure
In the first decade of the 21s century, copyright was high on the political agenda as activists and academics criticised how stricter implementations of copyright laws limited the public access to culture and knowledge and enclosed the information commons. A decade later, streaming media and data mining have changed the information-political agenda, shifting the focus from piracy to privacy, giving concepts such as access to knowledge and informa…
Authors, Inventors and Entrepreneurs
The ideas and ideals of authorship and the discourse on property rights that emerged in parallel since the 18 th century have come to form the bedrock of copyright law. Critical copyright scholars argue that this construction of authorship and ownership contributes to individualisation and privatisation of artistic works that disregards the collective aspects of creativity. It also embodies a certain kind of authorial character-or “author functio…
A critical guide to intellectual property
The studies of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) have changed radically since the 1990s. If copyright and patents were once the domain of specialized IPR lawyers, it has now grown into a wide inte
The political economy of intellectual property rights
Orthodox copyright scholarship frames piracy in ‘developing’ countries as a detrimental and illegal practice that results from these countries’ lack of economic, social and cultural development. It argues that piracy needs to be discouraged, regulated, and finally overcome for legitimate business to flourish. In this article, the authors challenge this viewpoint and question whether the implementation of international copyright instruments in leg…
Bellamy's Rage and Beer's Conscience
Over the last decade piracy has emerged as a growing field of research covering a wide range of different phenomena, from fashion counterfeits and media piracy, through to 17th century buccaneers and present-day pirates off the coast of Somalia. In many cases piracy can be a metaphor or an analytical perspective to understand conflicts and social change. This article relates this fascination with piracy as a practice and a metaphor to academia an…
Introduction
No abstract available
Extracting the commons
This article investigates how resources that are perceived as common are turned into property through different interventions of extractivism, and how this provokes counter-activism from groups and actors who see their rights and living conditions threatened by the practices of extraction. The article looks at how extraction is enacted through three distinct practices: prospecting, enclosure and unbundling, studied through three different cases. …
Commons, Piracy and the Crisis of Property
This article takes the politicisation of copyright and file sharing as a starting point to discuss the concept of the commons and the construction of property. Empirically, the article draws on a series of interviews with Pirate Party members in Sweden, Australia, Germany, the UK and USA; placed in the theoretical framework of the commons. We argue that piracy, as an act and an ideology, interrogates common understandings of property as something…
Piracy and the Politics of Social Media
Since the 1990s, the understanding of how and where politics are made has changed radically. Scholars such as Ulrich Beck and Maria Bakardjieva have discussed how political agency is enacted outside of conventional party organizations, and political struggles increasingly focus on single issues. Over the past two decades, this transformation of politics has become common knowledge, not only in academic research but also in the general political d…
Publishing for Public Knowledge
No abstract available
Copyright Culture and Pirate Politics
This article approaches the recent debates about copyright and piracy from a cultural and historical perspective, discussing how problems surrounding intellectual property rights (IPR) reflect cultural conflicts that are central to cultural studies. It sets out with a study of how international copyright norms developed in nineteenth-century Europe were implemented in two different national contexts: Sweden and the USA. This historical background…
Culturalisation at an Australian-Swedish Crossroads
No abstract available
Några internationella perspektiv på en forskningspolitik i förändring
We asked give former guest scholars to send us a short report on the current situation for cultural research in their home countries. This article is an attempt to summarise these reports and it touches on questions of funding, evaluating and conducting cultural and interdisciplinary research in Australia, New Zeeland, the United Kingdom, Finland and Israel. All reports tell of a situation where it is hard for cultural research to compete for fun…
Piracy and the Politics of Social Media
Since the 1990s, the understanding of how and where politics are made has changed radically. Scholars such as Ulrich Beck and Maria Bakardjieva have discussed how political agency is enacted outside of conventional party organizations, and political struggles increasingly focus on single issues. Over the past two decades, this transformation of politics has become common knowledge, not only in academic research but also in the general political d…
India’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library and the Politics of Patent Classifications
This article analyzes India's Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) as a potential intervention in the administration of patent law. The TKDL is a database including a vast body of traditional medical knowledge from India, aiming to prevent the patenting and misappropriation of that knowledge. This article contextualizes the TKDL in relation to documentation theory as well as to existing research on the uses of databases to protect traditi…
Dilemmas of protection
This article argues that since genetic resources carry cultural significance to many Indigenous communities, the protection of genetic resources should be considered in relation to the protection of Indigenous cultural heritage. It compares international regulations of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge to those of traditional cultural expressions, focusing particularly on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and its i…
A critical guide to intellectual property
The studies of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) have changed radically since the 1990s. If copyright and patents were once the domain of specialized IPR lawyers, it has now grown into a wide inte
The political economy of intellectual property rights
Orthodox copyright scholarship frames piracy in ‘developing’ countries as a detrimental and illegal practice that results from these countries’ lack of economic, social and cultural development. It argues that piracy needs to be discouraged, regulated, and finally overcome for legitimate business to flourish. In this article, the authors challenge this viewpoint and question whether the implementation of international copyright instruments in leg…
Några internationella perspektiv på en forskningspolitik i förändring
We asked give former guest scholars to send us a short report on the current situation for cultural research in their home countries. This article is an attempt to summarise these reports and it touches on questions of funding, evaluating and conducting cultural and interdisciplinary research in Australia, New Zeeland, the United Kingdom, Finland and Israel. All reports tell of a situation where it is hard for cultural research to compete for fun…
Culturalisation at an Australian-Swedish Crossroads
No abstract available
Copyright Culture and Pirate Politics
This article approaches the recent debates about copyright and piracy from a cultural and historical perspective, discussing how problems surrounding intellectual property rights (IPR) reflect cultural conflicts that are central to cultural studies. It sets out with a study of how international copyright norms developed in nineteenth-century Europe were implemented in two different national contexts: Sweden and the USA. This historical background…
Publishing for Public Knowledge
No abstract available
Commons, Piracy and the Crisis of Property
This article takes the politicisation of copyright and file sharing as a starting point to discuss the concept of the commons and the construction of property. Empirically, the article draws on a series of interviews with Pirate Party members in Sweden, Australia, Germany, the UK and USA; placed in the theoretical framework of the commons. We argue that piracy, as an act and an ideology, interrogates common understandings of property as something…
Piracy and the Politics of Social Media
Since the 1990s, the understanding of how and where politics are made has changed radically. Scholars such as Ulrich Beck and Maria Bakardjieva have discussed how political agency is enacted outside of conventional party organizations, and political struggles increasingly focus on single issues. Over the past two decades, this transformation of politics has become common knowledge, not only in academic research but also in the general political d…
Extracting the commons
This article investigates how resources that are perceived as common are turned into property through different interventions of extractivism, and how this provokes counter-activism from groups and actors who see their rights and living conditions threatened by the practices of extraction. The article looks at how extraction is enacted through three distinct practices: prospecting, enclosure and unbundling, studied through three different cases. …
Authors, Inventors and Entrepreneurs
The ideas and ideals of authorship and the discourse on property rights that emerged in parallel since the 18 th century have come to form the bedrock of copyright law. Critical copyright scholars argue that this construction of authorship and ownership contributes to individualisation and privatisation of artistic works that disregards the collective aspects of creativity. It also embodies a certain kind of authorial character-or “author functio…
A critical guide to intellectual property
The studies of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) have changed radically since the 1990s. If copyright and patents were once the domain of specialized IPR lawyers, it has now grown into a wide inte
The political economy of intellectual property rights
Orthodox copyright scholarship frames piracy in ‘developing’ countries as a detrimental and illegal practice that results from these countries’ lack of economic, social and cultural development. It argues that piracy needs to be discouraged, regulated, and finally overcome for legitimate business to flourish. In this article, the authors challenge this viewpoint and question whether the implementation of international copyright instruments in leg…
Bellamy's Rage and Beer's Conscience
Over the last decade piracy has emerged as a growing field of research covering a wide range of different phenomena, from fashion counterfeits and media piracy, through to 17th century buccaneers and present-day pirates off the coast of Somalia. In many cases piracy can be a metaphor or an analytical perspective to understand conflicts and social change. This article relates this fascination with piracy as a practice and a metaphor to academia an…
Introduction
No abstract available
Information Commons Between Enclosure and Exposure
In the first decade of the 21s century, copyright was high on the political agenda as activists and academics criticised how stricter implementations of copyright laws limited the public access to culture and knowledge and enclosed the information commons. A decade later, streaming media and data mining have changed the information-political agenda, shifting the focus from piracy to privacy, giving concepts such as access to knowledge and informa…
India’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library and the Politics of Patent Classifications
This article analyzes India's Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) as a potential intervention in the administration of patent law. The TKDL is a database including a vast body of traditional medical knowledge from India, aiming to prevent the patenting and misappropriation of that knowledge. This article contextualizes the TKDL in relation to documentation theory as well as to existing research on the uses of databases to protect traditi…
Dilemmas of protection
This article argues that since genetic resources carry cultural significance to many Indigenous communities, the protection of genetic resources should be considered in relation to the protection of Indigenous cultural heritage. It compares international regulations of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge to those of traditional cultural expressions, focusing particularly on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and its i…
Balancing community rights and national interests in international protection of traditional knowledge
This article analyses how local, national and international interests are reflected in India’s attempts to protect traditional knowledge through the formation of a Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL). It compares how the digital library is contextualised within India’s domestic policy with how it is presented to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The article argues that WIPO has endorsed the Indian initiative and embrac…
Mediatised marketplaces
Digital marketplaces are standard and pervasive sites to trade and exchange material consumer goods worldwide. Yet the media characteristics of different, situated marketplaces have received relatively sporadic attention from the field of media and communication studies, despite the otherwise prominent disciplinary interest in digital technologies, platforms and processes of mediatisation. This paper coalesces perspectives from social, geography …
Moral rights and the protection of classics
This article examines §51 of the Swedish Copyright Act 1960, generally known as ‘the protection of classics’ in relation to international discourses on copyright in the mid-twentieth century. The provision in §51 protects works of cultural significance by deceased authors and artists against reproductions that are considered offensive, even if the works are in the public domain. This article analyses the arguments and motives that led Swedish leg…
Protecting the classics in Swedish copyright law
This article discusses §51 of the Swedish copyright law, known as “the protection of classics”, as a cultural policy intervention. §51 protects culturally significant works by deceased authors against reproductions that are considered offensive, even if the works are in the public domain and thus not protected by copyright. The article provides a brief overview of the origin of §51 and analyses potential cases of violation between 1960 and 2020, …
Ownership of Knowledge
Back to the Future or Knowledge Reborn
This article explores the interplay between traditional knowledge (TK), artificial intelligence (AI), and the law, with a focus on challenges and opportunities in protecting TK. TK, often intrinsic to the way of life of indigenous communities, faces threats of erosion, misappropriation, and neglect due to both modernisation and historical injustices. While digitisation and AI present promising tools for preserving and reconstructing lost TK, thes…
The politics of canons and classics
In the spring of 2021, the Swedish Academy accused the national socialist website Nordfront of copyright infringement for publishing excerpts of poems by three National Romantic poets. Even though the works were in the public domain, the Academy argued that the publication violated §51 of the Swedish copyright law, also known as the protection of classics, which protects works by deceased authors that are of cultural significance against being re…
Political science (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Intellectual property (13 works) · Copyright and Intellectual Property (9 works) · Law and economics (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Business (6 works)