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Author Bellido, Jose, author.

Title Adventures in childhood : intellectual property, imagination, and the business of play / Jose Bellido, Kathy Bowrey
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 309 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge intellectual property and information law
Cambridge intellectual property and information law.
Contents Introduction -- Commercialisation and the innocent child -- Books, toy books, and the artfulness of consumption -- Instructions for a successful boy -- Animated properties -- Licensing gone wrong -- The rise of merchandising agencies -- Troubles at the British broadcasting corporation -- Conclusion : unsuitable for children
Summary "This book explores how the business of play and the development of modern intellectual property evolved together, and alongside concerns about children's consumption becoming a legitimate source of revenue and profit. Or, in other words, how that industry and children's special attachment to it gradually emerged. In so doing, it considers the paradox in the relationship between the growth of intellectual property and the presumed innocence of childhood that initially underpinned controversies about the construction of the child as a consumer. As is apparent throughout the book, our main argument is neither moralistic nor regulatory. Rather, our concern is to explore how, since the late nineteenth and through to the twentieth century, attempts to come to terms with this paradox were embedded in many issues and contexts. In tracing those entangled relationships, we think it is possible to see how modern authorship, entrepreneurship and even the child as a consumer, all came into simultaneous existence through a process of the mutual conferring of reality"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 11, 2022)
Subject License agreements -- Great Britain
Intellectual property -- Great Britain
Children's mass media -- Great Britain
Children's paraphernalia -- Great Britain
Child consumers -- Great Britain
License agreements -- United States
Intellectual property -- United States
Children's mass media -- United States
Children's paraphernalia -- United States
Child consumers -- United States
Child consumers
Children's mass media
Children's paraphernalia
Intellectual property
License agreements
Great Britain
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Bowrey, Kathy, author.
LC no. 2021060683
ISBN 9781108641968
1108641962
1108658741
9781108658744