Fiona Macmillan, Intellectual and Cultural Property: Between Market and Community, Abingdon, Routledge, 2021, 232 pp, hb £120 e-book £25.89. Intellectual and Cultural Property: Between Market and Community presents a philosophical contemplation of the possibilities for a strategic reimaging of intellectual property and cultural heritage law to better confront big issues surrounding culture, community and identity – cultural commodification, the geo-political history of the nation state, relations between the global North and South, postcolonialism and indigenous rights. It is an important book. It is probably the first detailed, theoretical engagement that addresses the intersection between critical intellectual property and cultural heritage law, focusing upon a shared concern for the commons of humanity in the face of the privatisation of everything and the neo-liberal rise of ‘total market thinking’ … (more)
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Kathy Bowrey, ‘Macmillan, Fiona, Intellectual and Cultural Property: Between Market and Community, Abingdon, Routledge, 2021, 232 pp, hb £120 e-book £25.89′, Modern Law Review, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12656. First published: 24 June 2021.
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