Debora Halbert

The State of Copyright

The complex relationships of cultural creation in a globalized world

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781138359307
• ISBN-10: 1138359300
• Artikelnr.: 53849374

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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