Who Owns Culture? : : Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law / / Susan Scafidi.

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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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Rutgers Series: The Public Life of the Arts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Commodification of Culture
  • 2 Ownership of Intangible Property
  • 3 Cultural Products as Accidental Property
  • 4 Categorizing Cultural Products
  • 5 Claiming Community Ownership via Authenticity
  • 6 Family Feuds
  • 7 Outsider Appropriation
  • 8 Misappropriation and the Destruction of Value(s)
  • 9 Permissive Appropriation
  • 10 Reverse Appropriation of Intellectual Properties and Celebrity Personae
  • 11 The Civic Role of Cultural Products
  • 12 An Emerging Legal Framework
  • Appendix: Defining Property
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author