The cultural life of intellectual properties : authorship, appropriation, and the law

The cultural life of intellectual properties : authorship, appropriation, and the law /

An ethnography of intellectual property, discussing the uses made of items of inellectual property by various cultural groups -- for purposes of identity, solidaritiy, resistance and so forth.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Coombe, Rosemary J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 1998
Series:Post-contemporary interventions.
Subjects:
Intellectual property > United States.
Critical legal studies > United States.
Popular culture > United States.
Intellectual property > Canada.
Critical legal studies > Canada.
United States > Cultural policy.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Authoring culture
  • Objects of property and subjects of politics
  • Author(iz)ing the celebrity: engendering alternative identities
  • Tactics of appropriation and the politics of recognition
  • Embodied trademarks: mimesis and alterity on American commercial frontiers
  • The properties of culture and the politics of possessing identity
  • Dialogic democracy I: authorship and alterity in public spheres
  • Dialogic democracy II: alterity and articulation in the space of the political.

Similar Items