Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law

by Jane M. Gaines, Alan Trachtenberg (Foreword by)

Overview

Jane M. Gaines examines the phenomenon of images as property, focusing on the legal staus of mechanically produced visual and audio images from popular culture. Bridging the fields of critical legal studies and cultural studies, she analyzes copyright, trademark, and intellectual property law, asking how the law constructs works of authorship and who owns the country's cultural heritage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807861646
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	11/09/2000
Series:	Cultural Studies of the United States
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
Lexile:	1670L (what's this?)
File size:	2 MB

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This is one of the first efforts, and certainly the most ambitious and sustained ones, to bring the methods of poststructuralist literary criticism to the study of a whole field of legal doctrine, that of intellectual property law. The results are fascinating and richly rewarding.—Robert W. Gordon, Stanford Law School

Editorial Reviews

Fascinating and richly rewarding.

Robert W. Gordon, Stanford Law School

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