By Matt Butcher
Journal Article: "At the Foundations of Information Justice"
Submitted by matt on Wed, 2009-02-25 22:26
In 2006 I started working on a paper on a concept I call "Information Justice". The idea is that information can be understood as a form of wealth, complete with a wealthy, oligarchic class and a poor, powerless lower class. If this is so, then there are serious ethical considerations to be had when it comes to intellectual property rights.
After presenting at multiple academic conferences, I submitted it to the Journal of Ethics and Information Technology, which publishes many of my favorite authors in the domain of computing and philosophy.
Finally, after just over two years of work, I have the pleasure of seeing my paper published. Here's the brief:
At the Foundations of Information Justice
Matthew P. Butcher
Ethics and Information Technology
ISSN 1388-1957 (Print) 1572-8439 (Online)
Issue Volume 11, Number 1 / March, 2009
DOI 10.1007/s10676-009-9181-2
Pages 57-69
SpringerLink Date Wednesday, February 11, 2009
http://www.springerlink.com/content/q1x612532n0847n0/
In a month or two I should get some paper reprints.
Another summary
I wrote up a slightly longer summary at my Sinciput blog.
Summary with some acknowledgments.
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