The SAGE Handbook of Intellectual Property

Edited by:

Matthew David - Durham University, UK
Debora Halbert - University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

Other Titles in:
Criminal Justice | Media Policy | Sociology (General)

November 2014 | 840 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This Handbook brings together scholars from around the world in addressing the global significance of, controversies over and alternatives to intellectual property (IP) today. It brings together over fifty of the leading authors in this field across the spectrum of academic disciplines, from law, economics, geography, sociology, politics and anthropology.

This volume addresses the full spectrum of IP issues including copyright, patent, trademarks and trade secrets, as well as parallel rights and novel applications. In addition to addressing the role of IP in an increasingly information based and globalized economy and culture, it also challenges the utility and viability of IP today and addresses a range of alternative futures.

PART I: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN A GLOBAL WORLD

Matthew David and Debora Halbert

Introduction

Anne Barron

Intellectual Property and the Open (Information) Society

Sarah Louisa Phythian-Adams

The Economic Foundations of IP

Shubha Ghosh

The Idea of International Intellectual Property

Debora Halbert

Globalization and Intellectual Property

PART II: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND DEVELOPMENT

Daniel Gervais

TRIPS and Development

Peter Yu

Déjà Vu in the International Intellectual Property Regime

Salvador Millaleo and Hugo Cadenas

Intellectual Property in Chile: Problems and Conflicts in a Developing Society

Alex Perullo and Andrew Eisenberg

Musical Property Rights Regimes in Tanzania and Kenya after TRIPs

PART III: BRANDING THE WORLD

Margaret Chon

Slow Logo: Brand Citizenship in Global Value Networks

Chris Rojek

Counterfeit Commerce: The Illegal Accumulation and Distribution of Intellectual Property

Rosemary J. Coombe, Sarah Ives and Daniel Huizenga

Geographical Indications: The Promise, Perils and Politics of Protecting Place-Based Products

Rosemary J. Coombe, Sarah Ives and Daniel Huizenga

The Social Imaginary of Geographical Indicators in Contested Environments: The Politicized Heritage and the Racialized Landscapes of South African Rooibos Tea

Chidi Oguamanam

Farmers’ Rights and the Intellectual Property Dynamic in Agriculture

PART IV: BETWEEN ECONOMY AND CULTURE

Colin Darch

The Political Economy of Traditional Knowledge, Trademarks and Copyright in South Africa

Lillian Alvarez

Author and Cultural rights: The Cuban Case

Lee Edwards, Bethany Klein, David Lee, Giles Moss, Fiona Philip

Communicating Copyright: Discourse and Disagreement in the Digital Age

Dave O’Brien

Creativity and copyright: the international career of a new economy

PART V: COMMONS

Jyh-An Lee

Nonprofits in the Commons Economy

Pradip Thomas

Lisa Dobbin and Martin Zeilinger

Treasuring IP: Free Culture, Media Piracy, and the International Pirate Party Movement

PART VI: CREATIVE COPYING

Raizel Liebler

Claudy Op den Kamp

John Tehranian

Dangerous Undertakings: Sacred Texts and Copyright’s Myth of Aesthetic Neutrality

PART VII: AUDIENCES AND SHARING

Matthew David, Andrew Kirton and Peter Millward

Streaming Sport and the Bi-Passing of Copying in Copyright Infringement

Matthew David and Natasha Whiteman

‘Piracy’ or Parody: moral Panic in the Age of New Media

Natasha Whiteman

Intellectual Property and the Construction of Un/Ethical Audiences

PART VIII: USEFUL ARTS AND CREATIVE CODES

Greg Lastowka

Jessica Silbey

Promoting Progress: A Qualitative Analysis of Creative and Innovative Production

Uma Suthersanen

PART IX: REGULATING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

Ian Brown

Andrew Kirton

Music, Technology and Copyright: The Makings and Shakings of a Global Industry

David S. Wall

PART X: PARAMETERS OF PATENT

Colin Darch

Politics, Law of and Discourse: Patents and Innovation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Graham Dutfield

Tradititional Knowledge, Intellectual Property and Pharmaceutical Innovation. What’s left to discuss?

Susanna H.S. Leong

Patentable subject matter – a comparative jurisdictional analysis of the discovery/invention dichotomy

PART XI: PATENTING THE FUTURE?

Jake Dunagan

Who Owns the Extended Mind? The Neuropolitics of Intellectual Property Law

William R. Kramer

Outer Space, Alien Life and IP Protocols – an opportunity to rethink life patents

Matthew Rimmer

Intellectual Property and Global Warming: Climate Justice

Multi-disciplinary in its scope and global in its sweep, The SAGE Handbook of Intellectual Property represents the state-of-the art in scholarship around this important and rapidly growing area. It is essential reading for all researchers, students and policy-makers who are interested in the transformation of culture and capitalism in the global age.

Majid Yar

Professor of Sociology, Centre for Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of Hull

In the fraught political economy of IPRs the legal perspective is too often privileged to the cost of exploring its wider social, political and ethical impact. This new handbook offers a guide to a wide range of issues situating them in a context that while legally informed engages with many other dimensions of making knowledge into property. Correcting for the exclusive focus on the legality of patent, copyright and trademark, the handbook offers an excellent example of the plurality of foci that are required to understand the social, political and economic role of intellectual property. The concentration of the legal dimension has been criticised for many years but now the range of those critiques is available in one volume and as such this volume will be an invaluable resource to those seeking to understand why intellectual property has become so central to the debates about the future of the global political economic system.

Christopher May

Professor of Political Economy, External Relations & Enterprise, Lancaster University