Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property
Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective
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Introduction
1. Patent Specification and Political Representation: How Patents Became Rights / Mario Biagioli
2. Authoring an Invention: Patent Production in the Nineteenth-Century United States / Kara W. Swanson
3. The “Person Skilled in the Art” Is Really Quite Conventional: U.S. Patent Drawings and the Persona of the Inventor, 1870–2005 / William Rankin
II. Before and after the Commons and Traditional Knowledge
4. Cultural Agencies: The Legal Construction of Community Subjects and Their Properties / Rosemary J. Coombe
5. Social Invention / Marilyn Strathern
6. From “Folklore” to “Knowledge” in Global Governance: On the Metamorphoses of the Unauthored / Marc Perlman
7. Inventing Copyleft / Christopher Kelty
8. Designing Cooperative Systems for Knowledge Production: An Initial Synthesis from Experimental Economics / Yochai Benkler
III. IP Crimes and Other Fictions
9. Beyond Representation: The Figure of the Pirate / Lawrence Liang
10. Publishers, Privateers, Pirates: Eighteenth-Century German Book Piracy Revisited / Martha Woodmansee
11. The Property Police / Adrian Johns
12. Characterizing Copyright in the Classroom: The Cultural Work of Antipiracy Campaigns / Tarleton Gillespie
13. An Economic View of Legal Restrictions on Musical Borrowing and Appropriation / Peter DiCola
IV. Old Things into New IP Objects
14. New Blood, New Fruits: Protections for Breeders and Originators, 1789–1930 / Daniel J. Kevles
15. Kinds, Clones, and Manufactures / Alain Pottage and Brad Sherman
16. No Patent, No Generic: Pharmaceutical Access and the Politics of the Copy / Cori Hayden
17. Inventing Race as a Genetic Commodity in Biotechnology Patents / Jonathan Kahn
18. The Strange Odyssey of Software Interfaces as Intellectual Property / Pamela Samuelson
V. Doing and Undoing Collaborative IP
19. Invention, Origin, and Dedication: Republishing Women’s Prints in Early Modern Italy / Evelyn Lincoln
20. Technological Platforms and the Layers of Patent Data / Tim Lenoir and Eric Giannella
21. Intellectual Property Norms in Stand-Up Comedy / Dotan Oliar and Christopher Sprigman
22. Patenting Life: How the Oncomouse Patent Changed the Lives of Mice and Men / Fiona Murray
23. Is There Such a Thing as Postmodern Copyright? / Peter Jaszi
Contributors
Index
“Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property gathers a wonderful collection of essays on the theme of intellectual property: its origins, its practices and materialities, its preoccupations, its assumptions and ways of thinking, its limitations and effects, and its alternatives. Filled with fascinating research and clear insights, this book will be of great importance not only to intellectual property scholars but to those in many of the disciplines that engage this subject, including literature, film studies, business law, and the history of science. The body of innovative work presented here will become a key reference point for scholars over the next decade.”
“Here's a simple prayer: Let no new law regarding ‘intellectual property’ be passed until all legislators have absorbed the treasures contained in this wonderful collection of essays.”
“I have little doubt that this collection—with its wide-ranging, multidisciplinary approach—will join the ranks of intellectual property’s most defining works. A lucid survey of the field, Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property will serve as a point of entry for readers of various disciplines interested in going beyond the popular but often unsophisticated and uninformed debates around general intellectual property. The essays presented here illuminate in deep ways the genealogy and nature of the questions posed by IP, while engaging in diverse methodologies. Insightful, smart, and great fun, this book will be extremely useful for intellectual property’s rich history and current predicaments.”
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