Contested Culture by Jane M Gaines

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Examines the phenomenon of images as property, focusing on the legal staus of mechanically produced visual and audio images from popular culture. Bridging the fields of critical legal studies and cultural studies, this analyses copyright, trademark, and intellectual property law, asking how the law constructs works of authorship and who owns the country's cultural heritage.

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Contested Culture by Jane M Gaines

Jane M. Gaines examines the phenomenon of images as property, focusing on the legal staus of mechanically produced visual and audio images from popular culture. Bridging the fields of critical legal studies and cultural studies, she analyzes copyright, trademark, and intellectual property law, asking how the law constructs works of authorship and who owns the country's cultural heritage.
Gaines, Jane M.: - Jane M. Gaines is the Director of the Program in Film and Video and a professor in the Graduate Program in Literature as well as the Department of English at Duke University. She is the author of Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law and coeditor of Collecting Visible Evidence.
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ISBN 13 9780807843260
ISBN 10 0807843261
Title Contested Culture
Author Jane M Gaines
Series Cultural Studies Of The United States
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Year published 1991-11-30
Number of pages 360
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