Author: Bronwyn Parry
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: bio, information, commodification, investigating, genome, trading
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-09
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0231121741
ISBN-13: 9780231121743

In a groundbreaking work that draws on anthropology, history, philosophy, business and law, Parry links firsthand knowledge of the operation of the bioprospecting industry to a sophisticated analysis of broader economic, regulatory, and technological transformations to reveal the complex economic and political dynamics that underpin the new global trade in bio-information.

Author: Deborah Root
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: difference, icon, editions, commodification, appropriation, culture, art, cannibal
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1996-02-09
List price: $41.00
ISBN-10: 0813320895
ISBN-13: 9780813320892

In Arizona, a white family buys a Navajo-style blanket to be used on the guest-room bed. Across the country in New York, opera patrons weep to the death scene of Madam Butterfly. These seemingly unrelated events intertwine in Cannibal Culture as Deborah Root examines the ways Western art and Western commerce co-opt, pigeonhole, and commodify so-called “native experiences.” From nineteenth-century paintings of Arab marauders to our current fascination with New Age shamanism, Root explores and explodes the consumption of the Other as a source of violence, passion, and spirituality.Through adv

Author: Helle Porsdam
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: andersen, commodification, creativity, christian, hans, fairy, tales, copyright
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-03-30
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1845426010
ISBN-13: 9781845426019

’This is not a lighthearted book, but rather an inspiring tale that challenges the development of copyright. A detailed historical analysis of copyright leads to fundamental questions about the role of copyright in society. From a historical perspective a tale of failure blamed on commodification surfaces, but the book also offers perspectives on the future, i.e. a future with or without copyright as we know it. Maybe after all there will be a fairy tale ending for the reader.’ - Paul Torremans, University of Nottingham, UK ’Once the preserve of a few legal specialists, t