Who owns culture?
Subtitle: appropriation and authenticity in American law
By: Susan Scafidi.
Series: Rutgers series on the public life of the arts
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780813536057; 9780813536064
Subjects: Intellectual property -- United States; Material culture -- United States; Folklore -- United States; Culture and law; Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-188) and index.
Table of contents: title: The commodification of culture; title: Ownership of intagible property; title: Cultural products as accidental property; title: Categorizing cultural products; title: Claiming community ownership via authenticity; title: Family feuds; title: Outsider appropriation; title: Misappropriation and the destruction of value(s); title: Permissive appropriation; title: Reverse appropriation of intellectual properties and celebrity personae; title: Civic role of cultural products; title: An emerging legal framework.