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Intellectual Property Law

2016

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Performance, Property, And The Slashing Of Gender In Fan Fiction , Sonia K. Katyal Apr 2016

Performance, Property, And The Slashing Of Gender In Fan Fiction , Sonia K. Katyal

Sonia Katyal

Today, it is no secret that the regime of copyright law, once an often-overlooked footnote to our legal system of property, now occupies a central position in modern debates surrounding the relationship between freedom of expression, language, and ownership. Curiously, however, while contemporary scholarship on copyright now embraces a wide range of political and economic approaches, it has often failed to consider how intellectual property law - as it is owned, constituted, created, and enforced - both benefits and disadvantages segments of the population in divergent ways. This absence is both vexing and fascinating. While issues of distributive justice have …


Performance, Property, And The Slashing Of Gender In Fan Fiction , Sonia K. Katyal Apr 2016

Performance, Property, And The Slashing Of Gender In Fan Fiction , Sonia K. Katyal

Sonia Katyal

Today, it is no secret that the regime of copyright law, once an often-overlooked footnote to our legal system of property, now occupies a central position in modern debates surrounding the relationship between freedom of expression, language, and ownership. Curiously, however, while contemporary scholarship on copyright now embraces a wide range of political and economic approaches, it has often failed to consider how intellectual property law - as it is owned, constituted, created, and enforced - both benefits and disadvantages segments of the population in divergent ways. This absence is both vexing and fascinating. While issues of distributive justice have …