[...]... describe the increasingly important eco- my attention and nomic motives behind intellectual property rights, arguing that content ownership and protection must be seen as one of the incentives behind the radical restructuring of publishing since the 1960s Why not then, in light of the subject matter and its historical legacy, use the more commonly known term copyright rather than intellectual property. .. authorship sites of To a large extent, the history of international intellectual property is one of expansion - in terms of subject matter, in terms of geopolitical reach, and in terms of the length for which the monopoly of intellectual property rights is accorded, something which has fluctuated substantially over time The Berne Convention specifies the life of the author and fifty years thereafter However,... consider the efforts of, among others, the United Nation's specialized agency World Intellectual Property 8 No Trespassing Organization (WIPO) to secure folklore and traditional knowledge (TK) within the framework of intellectual property rights and TRIPS The international community here faces one of its most provocative chal- me to look more closely at the possibility of in chapter 5 property rights One of. .. that really my made all the difference to the research Finally, credit where credit is most profoundly due I dedicate this to three daughters, whose presence in life makes every- book my thing possible to begin with my NO TRESPASSING: AUTHORSHIP, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, AND THE BOUNDARIES OF GLOBALIZATION INTRODUCTION THE PURSUIT OF PROPERTY The sequence of events depicted in the pages that follow... not falling into the habit of oversimplifying the task of assigning any pre- and /or overdetermined apparatus Having said there is power that, I to think evidence to suggest that the balance intellectual property is supposed to uphold between the right to access (public) and the right to ownership (private) is dislodged in the intellectual property regimes of the global economy and the information society... in the United access to the courts States in Stowe v Thomas, her individual property to stop only despite being No Trespassing 20 the acclaimed writer of the book in question - was by way of the true 26 legal subject of the marriage: her husband As words flow from the mouth of this French god-like father figure, it all concerns; not a hint of uncertainty can be detected as far as whom the universe of. .. Introduction: The Pursuit of Property 3 Wearing the Parisian Hat: Constructing the International Author 1 2 Inventing F David: Author(ing) Translation The Death 3 of the Author and the Assault By Machine 4 14 38 Killing of Books: 57 How Content Became King: Economies of Print 76 5 From the 'Intellectual' to the 'Cultural': Can There Be Property with a 'Difference'? 100 Genies in Bottles and Bottled-Up... story was, however, not limited to the balance sheets of publishers or the wallets of authors: the novel was the perfect vehicle 10 for the nation-state to promote itself It has been suggested that the two French writers who were most at ease with the workings of the book market at this time were Hugo and 11 George Sand They were also, together with Balzac, notoriously disloyal and changed publishers... today pressured by the decreasing importance of the nation-state and the spatial complexities of globaliza29 The inherent contradictions of intellectual property rights are bend and realign in new ways Suggesting that those in control of this regulatory regime have the upper hand in the tion therefore caused to 30 knowledge-based society is therefore hardly an exaggeration Because of its critical importance... final chapter, I will use two sets of upset relatives, the estate of Margaret Mitchell and a great-great grandson of Victor Hugo the first of whom were engaged in litigation against the 2001 publication of Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone, a rewrite of Gone With the Wind; Introduction 9 and the second stirring a debate in France over the publication, also in 2001, of Cosette ou le temps des illusions, . alt="" EVA HEMMUNGS WIRTEN No Trespassing Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo. TRESPASSING: AUTHORSHIP, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, AND THE BOUNDARIES OF GLOBALIZATION