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The State of Copyright: The complex relationships of cultural creation in a globalized world book cover

1st Edition

The State of Copyright The complex relationships of cultural creation in a globalized world

By Debora Halbert Copyright 2014
284 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Part One: Copyright and the State  1. Introduction   2. The State of Property: Seeking Stable Terrain for Intellectual Property  3. Piracy  4. Property and the State: Exporting Authenticity and The Territories of National Cultures  Part Two: Culture and the State  5. Exporting Authenticity and the Hybridity of Culture: Or, who’s a pirate anyway?  6. Critical Copyright, Cultural Flows, Traditional Knowledge and the Future  Part Three: The Future  7. Mass Culture and the Culture of the Masses: A Manifesto for User-Generated Rights  8. Skipping through the Desert of the Real: Copyright Landscapes and the Future of Creativity

Biography

Debora Halbert is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa. She is the author of Intellectual Property in the Information Age: The Politics of Expanding Ownership Rights and Resisting Intellectual Property, along with numerous articles on issues related to intellectual property.

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