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The SAGE Handbook of Intellectual Property

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December 2014 | 840 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This Handbook brings together scholars from around the world in addressing the global significance of, controversies over and alternatives to intellectual property (IP) today. It brings together over fifty of the leading authors in this field across the spectrum of academic disciplines, from law, economics, geography, sociology, politics and anthropology.

This volume addresses the full spectrum of IP issues including copyright, patent, trademarks and trade secrets, as well as parallel rights and novel applications. In addition to addressing the role of IP in an increasingly information based and globalized economy and culture, it also challenges the utility and viability of IP today and addresses a range of alternative futures.

 
PART I: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN A GLOBAL WORLD
Matthew David and Debora Halbert
Introduction
Anne Barron
Intellectual Property and the Open (Information) Society
Sarah Louisa Phythian-Adams
The Economic Foundations of IP
Shubha Ghosh
The Idea of International Intellectual Property
Debora Halbert
Globalization and Intellectual Property
 
PART II: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND DEVELOPMENT
Daniel Gervais
TRIPS and Development
Peter Yu
Déjà Vu in the International Intellectual Property Regime
Salvador Millaleo and Hugo Cadenas
Intellectual Property in Chile: Problems and Conflicts in a Developing Society
Alex Perullo and Andrew Eisenberg
Musical Property Rights Regimes in Tanzania and Kenya after TRIPs
 
PART III: BRANDING THE WORLD
Margaret Chon
Slow Logo: Brand Citizenship in Global Value Networks
Chris Rojek
Counterfeit Commerce: The Illegal Accumulation and Distribution of Intellectual Property
Rosemary J. Coombe, Sarah Ives and Daniel Huizenga
Geographical Indications: The Promise, Perils and Politics of Protecting Place-Based Products
Rosemary J. Coombe, Sarah Ives and Daniel Huizenga
The Social Imaginary of Geographical Indicators in Contested Environments: The Politicized Heritage and the Racialized Landscapes of South African Rooibos Tea
Chidi Oguamanam
Farmers’ Rights and the Intellectual Property Dynamic in Agriculture
 
PART IV: BETWEEN ECONOMY AND CULTURE
Colin Darch
The Political Economy of Traditional Knowledge, Trademarks and Copyright in South Africa
Lillian Alvarez
Author and Cultural rights: The Cuban Case
Lee Edwards, Bethany Klein, David Lee, Giles Moss, Fiona Philip
Communicating Copyright: Discourse and Disagreement in the Digital Age
Dave O’Brien
Creativity and copyright: the international career of a new economy
 
PART V: COMMONS
Jyh-An Lee
Nonprofits in the Commons Economy
Pradip Thomas
Copyright and Copyleft in India: Between Global Agendas and Local Interests
Lisa Dobbin and Martin Zeilinger
Treasuring IP: Free Culture, Media Piracy, and the International Pirate Party Movement
 
PART VI: CREATIVE COPYING
Raizel Liebler
Copyright and ownership of fan created works: fanfiction and beyond
Claudy Op den Kamp
Copyright and Film Historiography: The Case of the Orphan Film
John Tehranian
Dangerous Undertakings: Sacred Texts and Copyright’s Myth of Aesthetic Neutrality
 
PART VII: AUDIENCES AND SHARING
Matthew David, Andrew Kirton and Peter Millward
Streaming Sport and the Bi-Passing of Copying in Copyright Infringement
Matthew David and Natasha Whiteman
‘Piracy’ or Parody: moral Panic in the Age of New Media
Natasha Whiteman
Intellectual Property and the Construction of Un/Ethical Audiences
 
PART VIII: USEFUL ARTS AND CREATIVE CODES
Greg Lastowka
Copyright Law and Video Games: A Brief History of an Interactive Medium
Jessica Silbey
Promoting Progress: A Qualitative Analysis of Creative and Innovative Production
Uma Suthersanen
Copyright and Industrial Objects: Aesthetic Considerations and Policy Discriminations
 
PART IX: REGULATING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Ian Brown
Copyright technologies and clashing rights
Andrew Kirton
Music, Technology and Copyright: The Makings and Shakings of a Global Industry
David S. Wall
Copyright, trolling and speculative invoicing ‘in the shadow of the law’
 
PART X: PARAMETERS OF PATENT
Colin Darch
Politics, Law of and Discourse: Patents and Innovation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Graham Dutfield
Tradititional Knowledge, Intellectual Property and Pharmaceutical Innovation. What’s left to discuss?
Susanna H.S. Leong
Patentable subject matter – a comparative jurisdictional analysis of the discovery/invention dichotomy
 
PART XI: PATENTING THE FUTURE?
Jake Dunagan
Who Owns the Extended Mind? The Neuropolitics of Intellectual Property Law
William R. Kramer
Outer Space, Alien Life and IP Protocols – an opportunity to rethink life patents
Matthew Rimmer
Intellectual Property and Global Warming: Climate Justice

Multi-disciplinary in its scope and global in its sweep, The SAGE Handbook of Intellectual Property represents the state-of-the art in scholarship around this important and rapidly growing area. It is essential reading for all researchers, students and policy-makers who are interested in the transformation of culture and capitalism in the global age.

Majid Yar
Professor of Sociology, Centre for Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of Hull

In the fraught political economy of IPRs the legal perspective is too often privileged to the cost of exploring its wider social, political and ethical impact. This new handbook offers a guide to a wide range of issues situating them in a context that while legally informed engages with many other dimensions of making knowledge into property. Correcting for the exclusive focus on the legality of patent, copyright and trademark, the handbook offers an excellent example of the plurality of foci that are required to understand the social, political and economic role of intellectual property. The concentration of the legal dimension has been criticised for many years but now the range of those critiques is available in one volume and as such this volume will be an invaluable resource to those seeking to understand why intellectual property has become so central to the debates about the future of the global political economic system.

Christopher May
Professor of Political Economy, External Relations & Enterprise, Lancaster University

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