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Who Owns Culture? : Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law

It is not uncommon for white suburban youths to perform rap music, for New York fashion designers to ransack the world's closets for inspiration, or for Euro-American authors to adopt the voice of a geisha or shaman. But who really owns these art forms? Is it the community in which they were or...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Scafidi, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The commodification of culture
  • Ownership of intagible property
  • Cultural products as accidental property
  • Categorizing cultural products
  • Claiming community ownership via authenticity
  • Family feuds
  • Outsider appropriation
  • Misappropriation and the destruction of value(s)
  • Permissive appropriation
  • Reverse appropriation of intellectual properties and celebrity personae
  • Civic role of cultural products
  • An emerging legal framework.