Publications

Books

Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online

Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online, Rosemary J. Coombe, Darren Wershler, and Martin Zeilinger, eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014) 464 pp.

Dynamic Fair Dealing argues that only a dynamic, flexible, and equitable approach to cultural ownership can accommodate the astonishing range of ways that we create, circulate, manage, attribute, and make use of digital cultural objects.

2014

University of Toronto Press


The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation and the Law

The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation and the Law, Rosemary J. Coombe (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998) 462 pp. Reprinted in 2008.

Logos, trademarks, national insignia, brand names, celebrity images, design patents, and advertising texts are vibrant signs in a consumer culture governed by a regime of intellectual property laws. In The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties, professor of law and cultural anthropologist Rosemary J. Coombe brings an illuminating ethnographic approach to an analysis of authorship and the role law plays in shaping the various meanings that animate these protected properties in the public sphere.

1998

Duke University Press


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Chapters in Edited Anthologies

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Journal Articles

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Conference Proceedings

Culture: Anthropology’s Old Vice or International Law’s New Virtue?

1999

79 Proceedings of the American Society for International Law Annual Meetings


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Editorial Contributions

Making Music in the Soundscapes of the Law

A foreword to Joanna Demers’ Steal This: Music How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity

2005

A foreword to Joanna Demers’ Steal This: Music How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity


The Potential for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Intellectual Property Scholarship

1991

Introduction to a special issue on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Intellectual Property Issues for the Intellectual Property Journal


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Columns and Comments

Cultural Pluralism Protects Traditional Knowledge

(with Nicole Aylwin)

2006

Media Development


Cultural Rights and Intellectual Property Debates.

2005

Human Rights Dialogue: An International Forum for Debating Human Rights


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Book Reviews

Rethinking Creativity and Value

Review of Johanna Gibson, Creating Selves: Intellectual Property and the Narration of Culture

2008

Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice


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Policy Reports