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Who owns culture? : appropriation and authenticity in American law

Print Book, English, ©2005
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., ©2005
xiv, 203 pages ; 23 cm.
9780813536057, 9780813536064, 0813536057, 0813536065
56517448
The commodification of culture
Ownership of intangible property
Cultural products as accidental property
Categorizing cultural products
Claiming community ownership via authenticity
Family feuds
Outsider appropriation
Misappropriation and the destruction of value(s)
Permissive appropriation
Reverse appropriation of intellectual properties and celebrity personae
Civic role of cultural products
An emerging legal framework