Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. High and Low: IP Practices and Materialities
6. 1. Patent Specification and Political Representation: How Patents Became Rights 25
7. 2. Authoring an Invention: Patent Production in the Nineteenth- Century United States 41
8. 3. The “Person Skilled in the Art” Is Really Quite Conventional: U.S. Patent Drawings and the Persona of the Inventor, 1870–2005 55
9. II. Before and after the Commons and Traditional Knowledge
10. 4. Cultural Agencies: The Legal Construction of Community Subjects and Their Properties 79
11. 5. Social Invention 99
12. 6. From “Folklore” to “Knowledge” in Global Governance: On the Metamorphoses of the Unauthored 115
13. 7. Inventing Copyleft 133
14. 8. Designing Cooperative Systems for Knowledge Production: An Initial Synthesis from Experimental Economics 149
15. III. IP Crimes and Other Fictions
16. 9. Beyond Representation: The Figure of the Pirate 167
17. 10. Publishers, Privateers, Pirates: Eighteenth-Century German Book Piracy Revisited 181
18. 11. The Property Police 199
19. 12. Characterizing Copyright in the Classroom: The Cultural Work of Antipiracy Campaigns 215
20. 13. An Economic View of Legal Restrictions on Musical Borrowing and Appropriation 235
21. IV. Old Things into New IP Objects
22. 14. New Blood, New Fruits: Protections for Breeders and Originators, 1789–1930 253
23. 15. Kinds, Clones, and Manufactures 269
24. 16. No Patent, No Generic: Pharmaceutical Access and the Politics of the Copy 285
25. 17. Inventing Race as a Genetic Commodity in Biotechnology Patents 305
26. 18. The Strange Odyssey of Software Interfaces as Intellectual Property 321
27. V. Doing and Undoing Collaborative IP
28. 19. Invention, Origin, and Dedication: Republishing Women’s Prints in Early Modern Italy 339
29. 20. Technological Platforms and the Layers of Patent Data 359
30. 21. Intellectual Property Norms in Stand-Up Comedy 385
31. 22. Patenting Life: How the Oncomouse Patent Changed the Lives of Mice and Men 399
32. 23. Is There Such a Thing as Postmodern Copyright? 413
33. Contributors 429
34. Citation Index 437
35. Subject Index 449