... the “nuisance” brought by the VMS, and how they contributed in the devaluation of the property of the homeowners. Endicott NY Home and homeowners Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council ITRC Johnson George Francis Mitigation and mitigation landscape Health and Health risk Monitoring and maintenance...

.... It then considers intellectual property as a specific manifestation of this institutional logic of imitation to show how copy culture in the historical formation of Bombay cinema became a problem for Hollywood. Citing a variety of examples across a hundred years of industrial interconnection, the chapter shows how...

...This chapter stresses the importance of noticing not just the global communication flows made possible by new media but also recognizing that these are increasingly challenging older ideas of property rights. Backed by the United States and other states, some firms brand all “unauthorized” copying...

... and gendered hierarchies, and of the transformation of land and people into property. It overwrites the stories of others—particularly the peoples indigenous to these lands—erasing their histories, worldviews, and often even their existence, masking the violence inherent to colonization. This chapter sets...

... power in agricultural commodity chains; liberalized agricultural trade; expansive property rights protections; free trade agreements that promote corporate-friendly property rights protections and liberalized agricultural trade; decision making rules at the World Trade Organization that provide...

... (territorializing through fan clubs and contests, invoking intellectual property law, and datafying with big data) and two strategies of participation (accepting autonomy and letting them help through fan labor practices like fan funding and promotion). It identifies the challenges with both control...

... before boys was just one way to maintain gender subordination through marriage. That said, allowing girls to marry and control their property before boys also gave some individual girls the ability to escape abusive home lives, inherit property, and control their own wages in ways that must have been...

... while disrupting some conventional modes of governing business and science, including intellectual property rights. Entrepreneurialism expands the range of practices available to health activists, with potential benefits for certain disease communities, while also unsettling standard critiques...

...This chapter explains the importance of property for promoting equality in society and enhancing people's well-being. It then addresses the major legal debate regarding the method that should be used to redistribute welfare. There is much controversy in the literature as to whether redistribution...

...This chapter examines the cultural-interpretive labor involved in defining right from wrong goods and activities and negotiating the place of possessions, money, and property in the instruction and rearing of children in the latter quarter of the nineteenth century. It is a labor that fell...

... culture served as the primary source of legal transplants. However, American influence was significant in drafting intellectual property law, the reorganization of the court system, and legal education reform. Estonian private law is an excellent example of borrowing from foreign legal systems...

...The second chapter carries forward the implications of American Delsartism at one scene of property-making: the Supreme Court’s response to questions of ownership prompted by a portrait of Oscar Wilde. Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony established the constitutionality...

... Tiffany Lethabo Spillers Hortense light talbotypes photography to be race absorption photography Frederick Douglass property expression The age of the image announces itself even if a viewer doesn’t know that this is a reproduction of a daguerreotype. Wear and tear speckles its surface. What...

...This chapter explores the cognitive dissonance that Civil War soldiers experienced as they left their ordinary lives, suffused with customary common-law understandings of property, and entered the military, where according to the laws of war they could appropriate personal property in a variety...

... to protect its free laborers deprived the owner of convict-made goods of property rights without due process or denied him equal protection of the law. Antislavery ideology Class Convict labor Fourteenth Amendment US Constitution Fourteenth Amendment The Nelson Free labor ideology Harvard Law Review...

... the investments made in easily copied information. Cocktails are often devised and sold as services, rather than products, as well as promotion for the spirits they contain. As this chapter colorfully illustrates, classic intellectual property theory often fails to account for market-based innovation incentives...

...Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry, is the top producer of digital video films in the world. Funmi Arewa argues that Nigeria is an unlikely locale for the development of a major film industry given its lack of robust intellectual property enforcement. She demonstrates how Nollywood constitutes...

... of creativity without law is a need to shift our focus from a preoccupation with intellectual property to a more inclusive inquiry into innovation and its many drivers, broadening our horizon and the tools at our disposal to create effective policy. Microsoft negative space of IP Pink Daniel attribution...

... from her enslavers, later, when she and her husband became inheritors of white property, and lastly, when they sought to protect their free black child by appealing to the law. Ultimately, this chapter explores the promise of childhood as imagined by Wheatley, while previewing the foreclosure...

.... These included the construction of persons as property, and their control through racialization, forced reproduction, spatial containment, and social control through violence and terror. Understanding this history allows us to see how these functions continue to be reflected in contemporary forms of structural...