Intellectual Property, Theory, Culture: Intellectual Property, Theory, Culture
About the Book Series
This series presents theoretical and cultural examinations of intellectual property laws, developments, and policy. Volumes in the series may be identified by their innovative and critical analyses and their original contributions to international debate. Interdisciplinary in approach, the series will be of interest to intellectual property experts and stakeholders, policy advisors, and NGOs, as well as students and researchers in the very critical areas of intellectual property law, anthropology, and cultural studies.
Postcolonial Copyright Law: Lessons on Community and Coloniality from Thailand
1st Edition
By Mespiti Poolsavasdi
August 15, 2025
This book appraises postcolonial perspectives to rethink the meaning of copyright and makes suggestions for its future within the global landscape of intellectual property law. Drawing on the experience of Thailand as a case study, a country with a unique yet marginal position in discussions on ...
Art and Copyright Law: An Interdisciplinary Study on Interpictoriality
1st Edition
By Giulia Walter
May 09, 2025
This book tackles the lack of synchronicity between art and copyright law, proposing practical and interdisciplinary tools through which to navigate this conflict. In the last decades, high profile lawsuits have been filed against artists accused of plagiarism including Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger ...
Disrupting Copyright: How Disruptive Innovations and Social Norms are Challenging IP Law
1st Edition
By Margery Hilko
January 09, 2023
New innovations are created every day, but today’s business leaders are focused on finding disruptive innovations which are cheaper and lower performing than upmarket technologies. They create new markets, and challenge the status quo of existing technological thinking creating uncertainty both in ...
Food Security, Biological Diversity and Intellectual Property Rights
1st Edition
By Muriel Lightbourne
February 27, 2017
This volume advances the claim that the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) adopted in 2001 is the only existing international agreement with the potential to promote food security, conservation of biodiversity and equity. However, for ...
Patenting Lives: Life Patents, Culture and Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Johanna Gibson
November 15, 2016
Patenting Lives includes contributions from various interests and perspectives, both in the context of current international developments in life patents and the global agenda of harmonization of international intellectual property. The book is divided into five sections reflecting the critical ...
The Logic of Innovation: Intellectual Property, and What the User Found There
1st Edition
By Johanna Gibson
November 10, 2016
The Logic of Innovation examines not merely the supposed problem of the efficacy and relevance of intellectual property, and the nature of innovation and creativity in a digital environment, but also the very circumstances of that inquiry itself. Social life has itself become a sphere of production...