The Cultural Production of Intellectual Property Rights / Sean Johnson Andrews.

• VerfasserIn: Andrews, Sean Johnson
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : Temple University Press,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 p.)

This book looks at questions of intellectual property rights (IPR) -- historically, culturally, and politically -- and their relationship to law and the state. Arguing that the idea that intellectual property is another kind of property right (that is, that IP is a thing to be owned) exists in parallel with the idea that intellectual property is the consequence of a cultural process, Andrews discusses intellectual property rights within the context of cultural studies, treating them as an object through which intersecting cultural and political issues can be understood.

Table of Contents

Culture, the state, and (intellectual) property rights -- Property, primitive accumulation, and the liberal state -- Law, economics, and the apolitical culture of capitalism -- Culture, commodification, and the social production of value -- Culture, property, and the ends of progressive neoliberalism.