Ouch! “Intellectual property everywhere, all the time”

‘Imagine a world where absolutely everything is owned – and sold to those who can afford it. Every person would be a market. There would be nothing freely available in the public domain. Knowledge and culture could only be learnt if you paid for it.’

Guy Berger has written a great article on a session at the World Summit on the Information Society predicting a society where the commodification of knowledge has reached the extreme.