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New Media Income Sources and Digital Media in Turkey: Business Models, Issues and Suggestions

“…In other words, the ideas and commons of public spheres have been commercialized with patents, copyrights and trademarks for the benefit of the company. Perelman (2002) has also pointed out that as the economy is getting more information-dependent, the adaptation of traditional intellectual property rights to information becomes a major obstacle to development. This leads to negative externalities in the negative sense.…”

“…For this reason, the scarcer information resources are, the higher the price and the incentive to produce is. Whereas Perelman (2002), states that the economy concerned with the distribution of scarce resources has invalidated its laws by applying it to non-scarce information. According to the economic theory, no matter how much market-oriented it is, pricing in a way that will make non-scarce information a private good or artificially scarce by copyright, creates a contradiction to the basic concepts of the economy.…”

Space, matter and topology

“…In the dawn of the topological matter revolution, one of the major challenges of pure topology -the famous Poincaré conjecture -has finally been proved [28][29][30]: any 3D topological space X with π1(X) = 0 is topologically equivalent to the S 3 sphere. Recalling Gamow's remark about the unforeseeable applications of topology, there is no doubt that, in one way or another, this result will turn out to be helpful in understanding the riddles of nature.…”

Neem: Today and in the New Millennium

“…Indian villagers have been extracting the neem tree's chemical for pesticidal use through water and alcohol solvents years ahead of the patented processes of today (Third World Network, 2003). Therefore, lack of inclusion of indigenous knowledge into TRIPS reveals that , "IPRs for corporate interest is strong, to say the least, and are non-existent for the owners of knowledge that firms base their knowledge on" (Perelman, 2002). According to Waterman (2003) it is ironic that TRIPS was established to eradicate the expropriation of knowledge when it successfully does just that to traditional bio-diversity.…”