Critique of Bourgeois Intellectual Property Rights from the Perspective of Historical Materialism:Intangible Things and the Equality of Authorial Rights
This paper explores modem intellectual property rights through the lens of historical materialism by critiquing their foundation in the bourgeois legal framework.Traditionally,this framework stresses the ownership of tangible things,individual authorship rights,and property possession,while neglecting the communal aspects of intellectual creation as well as its sources and social utility.This study examines the inherent contradictions between property rights in tangible forms and those in intangible forms,arguing that intellectual property rights are fundamentally social rights over knowledge.It highlights the limitations of modem individualistic concepts of authorship,which transcend personal agency and diminish the collective dimension of creation.A thorough critique of this notion must address the tension between private intellectual property and public intellectual commons while avoiding unequal tendencies in intellectual property rights movements.