Contested Culture : The Image, the Voice, and the Law (Cultural Studies of the United States)

Gaines, Jane M.

ISBN 10: 0807819778 / ISBN 13: 9780807819777

Published by Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: University of North Carolina Press, 1991, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A., 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Contested Culture : The Image, the Voice, and the Law (Cultural Studies of the United States)
• Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: University of North Carolina Press, 1991, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807819778
• ISBN 13: 9780807819777
• Binding: Hb
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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.

Book Description

"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