| Sumario: | The writer contends that the dramatic expansion of intellectual property rights represents a new phase in commodification that threatens to make almost everything bad about capitalism even worse. He indicates that strengthening intellectual property rights will result in the consolidation of class differences, the weakening of science and technology, and the speeding up of the corporatization of the university; and will flood society with legal disputes and reduce personal freedoms. He argues that intellectual property rights claims go far beyond patent protection for useful inventions and copyrights for new music, and he states that some claims are so bizarre that they would be humorous if the courts did not take them so seriously.
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