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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2012

Murphy Halliburton*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Email: [email protected]

Abstract

This issue aims to assess the state of claims over intangible forms of property, which have been expanding in recent decades enabled by Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property and other international conventions. The articles examine the nature and limitations of intellectual property law and related property-like claims over intangible products and expressions, and present cases from the expanding margins of intangible property provisions including analyses of how these trends are playing out in the Global South and in areas outside of intellectual property law. The contributors show how both expansions of intangible property provisions and resistances to these expansions increase the terrain of experience that is enclosed by proprietary claims and suggest alternative strategies for responding to the contemporary intangible property regime.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © International Cultural Property Society 2012

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