This timely book presents an interdisciplinary feminist critique of intellectual property (IP) laws in music. Informed by the lived experience of women and gender-diverse people in the music industry, Metka Potocnik deconstructs the alleged gender-neutrality of IP laws.
Potocnik introduces 'Feminist Intellectual Property Studies' (FIPS), a new analytical framework combining feminist jurisprudence, feminist IP scholarship, and feminist musicology. Through a FIPS lens, Potocnik critiques copyright legislation, performers' rights, trade marks, and the concept of passing off. The book also incorporates interviews and empirical data from the music industry, policymaking, and academia, to examine how, if at all, the current systems meet the needs of women and gender-diverse people. Ultimately, Potocnik argues that, in order to ensure that IP laws are gender-inclusive, current systems in the music industry must be redesigned to centre human activity and not objects.
A Feminist Reconstruction of Intellectual Property Laws in Music is an essential reference for scholars and students in the emerging field of feminist IP scholarship and IP social justice. Public institutions and musicologists working to achieve gender equality in music will also benefit from the book's theoretical and practical insights.
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'Metka Potocnik's A Feminist Reconstruction of Intellectual Property Laws in Music presents IP law?through a feminist lens?to challenge claims of gender-neutrality. This groundbreaking?book presents an exciting vision for a new IP framework?that centres on?creators rather than?commercial exploitation. It redefines?legal perspectives about?creativity, power?and gender dynamics, and will be of great interest to not just legal scholars but also diversity researchers and campaigners in the music industry.' -- Vick Bain, Queen Mary University of London, UK 'This book delivers a compelling feminist critique of music-related IP law in the UK. Exemplifying how IP law can perpetuate gender inequality, but also how it could be reconstructed to empower women and gender-diverse creators, the book is essential reading for understanding systemic discrimination in creative industries and envisioning transformative legal reform.' -- Jessica C Lai, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
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Höhe: 234 mm
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978-1-0353-1981-7 (9781035319817)
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Metka Potocnik, Senior Lecturer in Law, School of Business and Law, University of Wolverhampton, UK
