"New shanzhai is open source on hyperspeed, an unapologetic confrontation with Western ideas of intelectual property. The designers and engineers of new *shanzhai * products build on each other's work, co-opting, repurposing, and remixing in a decentralized way. ..... Shanzhai's past has connotations of knockoff iPhones. New shanzhai stands in stark contrast to the increasingly proprietary nature of American technology, pushing us to think about access, maintenance, and the conflation of intellectual property and civility."
Blockchain Chicken Farm, by Xiaowei Wang.
Very much recommend the read. A bit later she points to how intellectual property rights is a very 18th century Anglo phenomenon, conflating property rights to the ability to be "Human".
"New shanzhai is open source on hyperspeed, an unapologetic confrontation with Western ideas of intelectual property. The designers and engineers of new *shanzhai * products build on each other's work, co-opting, repurposing, and remixing in a decentralized way. ..... Shanzhai's past has connotations of knockoff iPhones. New shanzhai stands in stark contrast to the increasingly proprietary nature of American technology, pushing us to think about access, maintenance, and the conflation of intellectual property and civility."
Blockchain Chicken Farm, by Xiaowei Wang.
Very much recommend the read. A bit later she points to how intellectual property rights is a very 18th century Anglo phenomenon, conflating property rights to the ability to be "Human".