Appropriation and Intellectual Property

“Appropriation Art” and Recognition of the Legal Status of the Author

It is often thought that appropriation art doesn’t give rise to its traditional concept and place. Because there are secondary works in the world of visual arts that are taken from the original works. From a legal point of view despite their uniqueness, definite and certain material existence of these works, the situa­tion of the author is not very clear. “How can be explained the authorship re...

Intellectual Property Protection and Traditional Knowledge

“Indigenous cultural knowledge has always been an open treasure box for the unfettered appropriation of items of value to Western civilization. While we assiduously protect rights to valuable knowledge among ourselves, indigenous people have never been accorded similar rights over their cultural knowledge. Existing Western intellectual property laws support, promote, and excuse the wholesale, u...

Scenes from the Colonial Catwalk: Cultural Appropriation, Intellectual Property Rights, and Fashion

Modularity for Value Appropriation – How to Draw the Boundaries of Intellectual Property

The existing theory of modularity explains how modular designs create value. We extend this theory to address value appropriation. A product or process design that is modular with respect to intellectual property (IP) allows firms to better capture value in situations where knowledge and value creation are distributed across many actors. We propose a theory of IP modularity based on value maxim...

Language revitalization in Native North America--issues of intellectual property rights and intellectual sovereignty.

Language revitalization, oral tradition and epistemology are expressions of Native peoples intellectual sovereignty, and thus the foundation for indigenous intellectual property rights. As the people of California move towards language and cultural revitalization the question arises: What constitutes or constructs the definitions of intellectual property and how can appropriation of indigenous ...