Cory Doctorow, co-editor of Boing Boing, writes on the ideologically loaded term, "intellectual property" and says You Can't Own Knowledge:

[...] "intellectual property" is, at root, a dangerous euphemism that leads us to all sorts of faulty reasoning about knowledge. Faulty ideas about knowledge are troublesome at the best of times, but they're deadly to any country trying to make a transition to a "knowledge economy."

The other pieces in Japanese activist, entreprenneur and CEO of Creative Commons, Joi Ito's book are equally engaging and, properly, available online at FreeSouls. I wonder, however, even if knowledge becomes freely available and abundant in a sort of Locke-ian commons, will we run into issues over who owns and controls access to that knowledge? Computers, mobile phones, ISPs, data plans all cost money--a lot of money.