BOOK FORUM: Bowrey, Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value; Macmillan, Intellectual and Cultural Property
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
This event will be held in Room 307, Birkbeck Central, Malet Street
Please join us for a discussion of Kathy Bowrey’s Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value: Incorporating the Author (Routledge 2021) and Fiona Macmillan’s Intellectual and Cultural Property: Between Market and Community (Routledge 2021).
Questioning the work intellectual property does (or doesn’t do) in structuring industrial and cultural dynamics, these two books open new directions for research on the place of intellectual property.
Breaking away from simplistic ideological and conspiratorial readings of industry dynamics in the publishing, film and music industries Bowrey meticulously opens up several archives to present a series of business histories that challenge many assumptions held by both legal and cultural critics. From Conan Doyle, to Hall Caine, and Margaret Atwood, from Dame Nellie Melba, to Radiohead, and Bansky, Bowrey addresses big questions about how copyright generates income and how distributions of profits are allocated in the publishing, film and music industries. It includes discussion of the creation of new formats, the interplay between old media and new technologies, international copyright reform and cross-industry relations.
Exploring the fraught relationship between cultural heritage and intellectual property, in their common concern with the creative arts, Macmillan tells the history of the making of international legal instruments to dissect the fragmentation of international law while energizing the concept of cultural property as a way of resisting the commodification and creeping propertization of everything. As such, the book proposes an alternative basis for expressing and controlling value according to the norms and identity of a community, and not according to the market value of private property rights.
Presenters:
- Professor Hyo Yoon Kang, Warwick University
- Dr Danilo Mandic, University of Westminster
- Dr Luke McDonagh, London School of Economics
- Professor Uma Suthersanen, Queen Mary University of London
With responses from:
- Professor Kathy Bowrey, University of New South Wales
- Professor Fiona Macmillan, Birkbeck University of London
Chair: Dr Henrique Carvalho, Birkbeck University of London
This event is jointly organised by the Birkbeck School of Law and the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute.
The event will also be available to join live via Zoom:
Details TBA
Contact name:
Dr Henrique Carvalho