infoanarchist

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English

Etymology

From info +‎ anarchist, coined in 2000 in an article in Time magazine about Ian Clarke.

Noun

infoanarchist (plural infoanarchists)

  1. (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).