infoanarchist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From info + anarchist, coined in 2000 in an article in Time magazine about Ian Clarke.
Noun
[edit]infoanarchist (plural infoanarchists)
- (politics, economics) A person who opposes intellectual property and copyright.
- 2000 July, A. Cohen, “The Infoanarchist”, in Time, volume 155, page 47:
- It turns out that the brave new world of free-flowing information can be a bit disconcerting, even to infoanarchists.
- 2012, Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, Infoanarchism:
- Infoanarchists have emerged as part of the broader copyright social conflict and copyright debate.
- 2013, Ulises Ali Mejias, Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World:
- This, of course, unleashed the ire of many infoanarchists and freedom-of-speech advocates, who saw the removal of the videos as a clear violation of fair use (the exception to copyright that allows people to use materials for purposes such as education, news reporting, criticism, and so on without asking for permission).