The luxury economy and intellectual property : critical reflections
Sunder, MadhaviContributor
Sunder, MadhaviEditor
Sun, HaochenContributor
Sun, HaochenEditor
Beebe, Barton CarlContributor
Beebe, Barton CarlEditor
This title explores the rise of the luxury goods economy and the growing role of intellectual property in creating, sustaining, and regulating this economy. Leading scholars across various disciplines critically consider the industry, its foundational intellectual property laws, and the public interest and social concerns arising from the intersection of economics and law.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This title explores the rise of the luxury goods economy and the growing role of intellectual property in creating, sustaining, and regulating this economy. Leading scholars across various disciplines critically consider the industry, its foundational intellectual property laws, and the public interest and social concerns arising from the intersection of economics and law.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 22, 2015).
Luxury and its opposites : a critical fashion studies perspective / Susan B. Kaiser, Joseph H. Hancock II, and Sara T. Bernstein -- The story of luxury products and the (broken) promise of superior quality in a world of prestige for the masses / Irene Calboli -- The economics of demand for counterfeiting / Yi Qian -- Brands r us / Mario Biagioli, Anupam Chander, and Madhavi Sunder -- Parody as brand / Stacey L. Dogan and Mark A. Lemley -- Stolen valor and stolen luxury : free speech and exclusivity / Rebecca Tushnet -- The gender of trademarks and luxury branding / Ann Bartow -- Upstairs/downstairs, fashionwise : a view of design protection from lower down the food chain / Diane Leenheer Zimmerman -- Shanzhai, sumptuary law, and intellectual property law in contemporary China / Barton Beebe -- The ethical responsibilities of luxury companies and consumers / Haochen Sun -- The scholarship of envy : how the framing of fashion leaves a legal lacuna / Susan Scafidi -- Let them eat fake cake : the rational weakness of China's anti-counterfeiting policy / Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman -- A perspective from Asia : special protection for luxury brands, legal sense or nonsense? / David Llewelyn -- Cosmopolitanism and the transnational trademark / Sonia K. Katyal.
Luxury goods industry
Intellectual property
Law, General & Comparative
Law, Politics & Government