Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll PK | Judge: Julian Kuffour
The Aff’s portrayal of a world with reduced IP protections as an "information commons" where medical inequality is solved by deregulation perpetuates the neoliberal myth of a perfect market
Kapczynski 14 ~(Amy, a Professor of Law at Yale Law School, Faculty Co-Director of the Global Health Justice Partnership, and Faculty Co-Director of the Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency. She is also Faculty Co-Director of the Law and Political Economy Project and cofounder of the Law and Political Economy blog. Her areas of research include information policy, intellectual property law, international law, and global health.) "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY’S LEVIATHAN" Duke Law, Law and Contemporary problems, 2014. https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4710andcontext=lcp~~ BC
Over the last decade or so, a powerful set of critiques has emerged to contest the dominant account just sketched out as well as the contemporary state of IP law.12 These arguments have come from many directions, some even arising from scholars who previously were champions of the dominant account.13 The most prominent and potent line of theoretical critique in the legal literature has come in the guise of arguments for free culture and the "information commons" and has been most influentially articulated by Lawrence Lessig and Yochai Benkler.14 Both have stressed the problems with expansive exclusive rights regimes in information and have also sketched a set of actually existing alternatives to market-based exclusionary forms of information and cultural production.
Lessig has written a series of influential books that have made him a "rock
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and reduce it to a concrete proposal that could be sold to governments.
Bachand 20 ~(Remi, Professor of International Law, Département des sciences juridiques, member of the Centre d’études sur le droit international et la mondialisation (CÉDIM), Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) "What’s Behind the WTO Crisis? A Marxist Analysis" The European Journal of International Law, 8/12/2020. https://academic.oup.com/ejil/article-abstract/31/3/857/5920920?redirectedFrom=fulltext~~ BC
To offer our own explanation, we must recall two aspects of our theoretical framework
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or at least to strongly impede the turn towards an alternative model to neoliberalism
Clark 18 (Brett, associate professor of sociology and sustainability studies at the University of Utah; Stefano B. Longo, Assistant Professor specializing in Environmental Sociology at NC State; "Land–Sea Ecological Rifts", Land–Sea Ecological Rifts, https://monthlyreview.org/2018/07/01/land-sea-ecological-rifts/)
Covering approximately 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, the World Ocean is "the
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the contradictions of capital are central to contemporary land-sea ecological rifts.
Galant 19 ~(Michael, a coordinator of the Wire Pillar of the Progressive International, former economics and trade fellow at Young Professionals in Foreign Policy, MPP from Harvard University’s Kennedy School and BA in political economy from Brown University) "The Battle of Seattle: 20 years later, it's time for a revival" Open Democracy, 11/30/2019. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/battle-seattle-20-years-later-its-time-revival/~~ BC
20 years ago today, the streets of Seattle became front lines in the global
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possible!" It still is – if we’re willing to fight for it.