Western Dualism and the Regulation of Cultural Production

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-116
Author(s):  
Fiona Macmillan
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
The West ◽  
Intellectual Property Law ◽  
The World ◽  
Legal Regimes

Abstract This work sets out to consider the fate of creativity and forms of cultural production as they fall into and between the regimes of cultural heritage law and intellectual property law. It examines and challenges the dualisms that ground both regimes, exposing their (unsurprising) reflection of occidental ways of seeing the world. The work reflects on the problem of regulating creativity and cultural production according to Western thought systems in a world that is not only Western. At the same time, it accepts that the challenge in taking on the dualisms that hold together the existing legal regimes regulating creativity and cultural production lies in a critically nuanced approach to the geo-political distinction between the West and the rest. Like many of the distinctions considered in this book, this is one that holds and does not hold.

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Intellectual Property Law ◽  
Race Ethnicity

This chapter introduces readers to the knock-off fashion trade in Tecpán, Guatemala, where hundreds of indigenous Maya men own small-scale workshops where they make clothing that features unauthorized reproductions of popular fashion brands. Drawing on the anthropology of fashion, cultural studies, archaeology, and material culture studies, the Introduction also develops a theory of style that emphasizes the importance of copying and imitation to processes of cultural production. The chapter situates fashion branding within a broader context of “highland style,” defined by an effusive aesthetics and complicated relationships among race, ethnicity, gender, and dress in a place perhaps best known for the traditional, woven blouses and skirts (traje) worn by many Maya women. Appreciating the importance of copying and imitation to the unfolding of style in highland Guatemala and across the global fashion industry opens up questions about the privileging of a particular model of creativity, originality, and modernity in international intellectual property law.

Part II Substantive Aspects, Ch.20 Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burri Mira
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Intellectual Property Law ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Traditional Cultural Expressions ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the protection of both cultural heritage and intellectual property. The relationship between cultural heritage and intellectual property evolves in a profoundly complex setting—with many institutions and actors involved, often with very different or even divergent interests, and within a fragmented legal regime. Although intellectual property law has developed sophisticated rules with regard to a variety of intellectual property forms, it is based on certain author-centred and mercantilist premises that do not work so well with the protection of traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCE). Nevertheless, in the fields of patent, trademark, and copyright protection, there are tools that may provide some, albeit imperfect, protection of TK and TCE. The chapter maps the mismatches and the gaps and asks whether these can be addressed in some viable way—be it through adjusting the existing rules or through the creation of new tailored models of protection.

Virtual Property in Virtual Worlds

2010 ◽  
pp. 89-108
Author(s):  
Angela Adrian
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Physical Plane ◽  
Intellectual Property Law ◽  
Collective Property ◽  
Virtual Property ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Digital technology is detaching information from the physical plane, where property law of all sorts has always found definition. Throughout the history of intellectual property law, the proprietary assertions of thinkers and inventors have been focused not on their ideas, but on the expression of those ideas. The ideas themselves, as well as facts about the phenomena of the world, were considered to be the collective property of humanity. One could claim franchise, in the case of copyright, on the precise turn of phrase used to convey a particular idea or the order in which facts were presented. Law protected expression. To express was to make physical. One did not get paid for the idea but for the ability to deliver it into reality. The value was in the conveyance and not the thought conveyed. In other words, the bottle was protected, not the wine. (Barlow, 2004)

WIPO's International Registration of Trademarks: An International Administrative Act Subject to Examination by the Designated Contracting Parties

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1597-1624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
World Intellectual Property Organization ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Industrial Property ◽  
Intergovernmental Organization ◽  
Intellectual Property Law ◽  
The World

Although the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is a technical intergovernmental organization with a limited mandate, it has been entrusted with a panoply of tasks. These include, inter alia, the international harmonization of intellectual property law, the administration of fee-based global intellectual property protection services, and the delivery of dispute resolution services to individuals. While the central role of WIPO in the continuous development of substantive intellectual property law has been questioned by developing countries, the administrative activities of WIPO have remained largely unscathed by critique and, therefore, have not attracted much attention. They revolve around the international filing, registration or recognition of industrial property rights, such as patents, industrial designs and trademarks, and provide an interesting perspective on the law of international institutions.

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