Propriété intellectuelle versus « communisme informationnel »

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The droit d'auteur is torn between two opposing paradigms: on one hand, the market economy model, which provides economic freedom and private property, tends to merchandise the creative works; on the other hand, the informational model, which provides free communication of the knowledge and creative work for the benefit of general interest, tends to suppress any obstacles to the free communication. Since the French revolution, the lawmakers have constructed the droit d'auteur paradigm, by reference to the traditional property model. However, such concept seems unsuitable in the new digital and Internet context. We assume that a kind of “informational communism” which provides the exchange and publication of the knowledge on behalf of the general interest, and devoid of any reference to the concept of property, shall be a more appropriate system in the new communication.