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Putting Intellectual Property in Its Place: Rights Discourses, Creative Labor, and the Everyday

Putting Intellectual Property in Its Place: Rights Discourses, Creative Labor, and the Everyday

Murray, Laura J.
Robertson, Kirsty
Piper, S. Tina

Hardcover

General Law

ISBN10: 0199336261
ISBN13: 9780199336265
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 17 2014
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Putting Intellectual Property in its Place examines the relationship between creativity and intellectual property law on the premise that, despite concentrated critical attention devoted to IP law from academic, policy and activist quarters, its role as a determinant of creative activity is overstated. The effects of IP rights or law are usually more unpredictable, non-linear, or illusory than is often presumed. Through a series of case studies focusing on nineteenth century journalism, fake art, plant hormone research between the wars, online knitting communities, creativity in small cities, and legal practice, the authors discuss the many ways people comprehend the law through information and opinions gathered from friends, strangers, coworkers, and the media. They also show how people choose to share, create, negotiate, and dispute based on what seems fair, just, or necessary, in the context of how their community functions in that moment, while ignoring or reimagining legal mechanisms. In this book authors Murray, Piper, and Robertson define the everyday life of IP law, constituting an experiment in non-normative legal scholarship, and in building theory from material and located practice.

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