Who owns culture? appropriation and authenticity in American law / [electronic resource] :
Susan Scafidi.
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005.
- xiv, 203 p.
- Rutgers series on the public life of the arts .
- Rutgers series on the public life of the arts. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-188) and index.
The commodification of culture -- Ownership of intagible property -- Cultural products as accidental property -- Categorizing cultural products -- Claiming community ownership via authenticity -- Family feuds -- Outsider appropriation -- Misappropriation and the destruction of value(s) -- Permissive appropriation -- Reverse appropriation of intellectual properties and celebrity personae -- Civic role of cultural products -- An emerging legal framework.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Intellectual property--United States. Material culture--United States. Folklore--United States. Culture and law. Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.