Research Catalog

Title

Cultural rights : technology, legality, and personality / Celia Lury.

Author

Lury, Celia.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

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Description

vi, 239 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Examines the fate of "originality" and "authenticity" in postmodern culture. Lury compares a regime of cultural rights ordered by copyright, authorship and originality with one defined by trademark, branding and simulation. She also looks at "women" in the cultural reproduction process.

Series Statement

International library of sociology

Uniform Title

International library of sociology

Subject

• Culture
• Intellectual property
• Copyright
• Trademarks
• Printing
• Broadcasting
• Information technology
• Intellectual Property
• Copyright
• Patents as Topic

Genre/Form

Trademarks.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-229) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. From Repetition to Replication -- 3. Replication, Novelty and Reactivation -- 4. Branding, Trademark and the Virtual Audience -- 5. Mechanical Reproduction: Print, Literacy and the Public Sphere -- 6. Electronic Reproduction: Broadcasting, Watching and Public Service -- 7. Micro-Electronic Reproduction: Communication, the Flow of Information and Users -- 8. Technologies of Culture and Gender -- 9. Simulation, Gender and Contemporary Culture.

ISBN

• 0415031559
• 0415095786 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^92037656^//r93

OCLC

27010879

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library