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- ISBN 9780300146714
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jun 2012
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Most scholarship on intellectual property considers this law from the standpoint of law and economics. Under this conventional wisdom, intellectual property is simply a tool for promoting innovative products, from iPods to R2D2. In this highly original book Madhavi Sunder calls for a richer understanding of intellectual property law’s effects on social and cultural life. Intellectual property does more than incentivize the production of more goods. This law fundamentally affects the ability of citizens to live a good life. Intellectual property law governs the abilities of human beings to make and share culture, and to profit from this enterprise in a global Knowledge economy. This book turns to social and cultural theory to more fully explore the deep connections between cultural production and human freedom.
Madhavi Sunder is professor of law at the University of California-Davis School of Law. She lives in Davis, CA.
