infoanarchist

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noun

A person who opposes intellectual property and copyright.

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Meanings

nouninfoanarchist (plural infoanarchists)

plural infoanarchists

  1. economicsA person who opposes intellectual property and copyright.

    Infoanarchists have emerged as part of the broader copyright social conflict and copyright debate.

    2012, Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, Infoanarchism
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    It turns out that the brave new world of free-flowing information can be a bit disconcerting, even to infoanarchists.

    2000 July, A. Cohen, “The Infoanarchist”, in Time, volume 155, page 47

    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).

    2013, Ulises Ali Mejias, Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World

Origin

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

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APA

infoanarchist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infoanarchist

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Chicago

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