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.
2014The 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.
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Chapters in Edited Anthologies
2021
2020
Aboriginal Community Research: Government and Neoliberal Self Determination
2019
University of British Columbia Press
2017
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Journal Articles
2018
The Knowledge Economy and its Cultures: Neoliberalism and Latin American Reterritorializations
2016
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
“Marks Indicating Conditions of Origin in Rights-Based Sustainable Development”
(with Nicole Aylwin)
2014University of California, Davis Law Review
“Bordering diversity and desire: using intellectual property to mark place-based products”
(with Nicole Aylwin)
2011(Special Issue of) Environment and Planning A: Society and Space New Borders of Consumption
“What’s Feminist about Open Access? A Relational Approach to Copyright in the Academy”
(with Carys Craig and Joseph F. Turcotte)
2011feminists@law: An Open Access Journal of Feminist Legal Scholarship
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Conference Proceedings
Intellectual Properties and the Limits of Human Rights Categories: Claiming Cultural Rights in Neoliberal Environments
2005
Contested Commons, Trespassing Publics: A Public Record
Preserving Cultural Diversity through the Preservation of Biological Diversity
2000
The Gender of Genetic Futures: The Canadian Biotechnology Strategy, Women and Health
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
“Foreword: Diversifying Intellectual Property”
2015
Diversity in Intellectual Property: Identities, Interests and Intersections
Making Music in the Soundscapes of the Law
A foreword to Joanna Demers’ Steal This: Music How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity
2005
1997
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
A Commentary on Stacey Langwick, “Partial Publics The Political Promise of Traditional Medicine in Africa”
2015
Current Anthropology
Declaration on the Safeguarding of Indigenous Ancestral Burial Grounds as Sacred Sites and Cultural Landscapes
2014
International Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH)
2007
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
2008Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice
Review of Carol Greenhouse (with Roshanak Kheshti), Democracy and Ethnography
2003
American Ethnologist
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Policy Reports
Expert’s Report on The Crucible Group, “Seeding Solutions: Policy Options for Plant Genetic Resources”
2000
International Development Research Centre
Preserving Cultural Diversity through the Preservation of Biological Diversity: Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and the Role of Digital Technologies
2000
report commissioned by the Cultural Policy Division of the Council of Europe
The Protection of Indigenous Knowledge under the Convention on Biological Diversity: The International Human Rights Framework and Canadian Policy Options
1998
Prepared for the Intellectual Property Policy Directorate, Industry Canada