| Description |
1 online resource (283 pages) |
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RIPE Series in Global Political Economy |
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RIPE series in global political economy.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the state of culture; The global political economy of information ownership; Copyright maximalism; The language game of intellectual property politics; Chapter overview; 2 American intellectual property hegemony; For the good of the country: restructuring the American government to protect intellectual property; Reconfiguring bureaucracy; Congressional advocacy; Beyond America -- intellectual property barbarians and intellectual property maximalism; Conclusion |
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3 Intellectual property piracy and the national security threatFraming piracy as a national security threat; The securitization of intellectual property; Who is the enemy? From pirates and IP activists to terrorists; A fractured global debate; Conclusion; 4 Intellectual property and the state: the territories of national culture; The Cold War and the clash of cultural policy; Cold War copyright; The state of national culture; So what is European culture anyway?; Conclusion; 5 Exporting authenticity and the hybridity of culture; Hybridity and the nation-state; Conclusion |
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6 Critical copyright, cultural flows, traditional knowledge, and the futureThe colonizing practices of copyright; Pathway one: preserving the past -- neotraditionalism; Pathway two: neoliberal indigeneity; Pathway three: global indigeneity-hybridity and the (re)birth of authenticity; Traditional knowledge and the modern state; Conclusion; 7 Mass culture and the culture of the masses: a manifesto for user-generated rights; The origins of user-generated content; Deconstruction of user-generated content; The "problem" of user-generated content |
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Toward a better copyright balance and a cultural bill of rightsConclusion; 8 Skipping through the desert of the real: copyright landscapes and the future of creativity; TRIPing through the desert of the real; Skipping through the desert of the real; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book seeks to make an intervention into the ongoing debate about the scope and intensity of global copyright laws. While mapping out the primary actors in the context of globalization and the modern political economy of information ownership, the argument is made that alternatives to further expansion of copyright are necessary. By examining the multiple and competing interests in creating the legal regime of copyright law, this books attempts to map the political economy of copyright in the information age, critique the concentration of ownership that is intrinsic in the status |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Upphovsrätt -- sociala aspekter.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317817437 |
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1317817435 |
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