The symbols signs and traces of copyright and related intellectual property laws that appear
on everyday texts objects and artifacts have multiplied exponentially over the past 15 years.
Digital spaces have revolutionized access to content and transformed the ways in which content
is porous and malleable. In this volume contributors focus on copyright as it relates to
culture. The editors argue that what «counts» as property must be understood as shifting
terrain deeply influenced by historical economic cultural religious and digital
perspectives. Key themes addressed include issues of how: • Culture is framed defined and or
identified in conversations about intellectual property • The humanities and other related
disciplines are implicated in intellectual property issues • The humanities will continue to
rub up against copyright (e.g. issues of authorship authorial agency ownership of texts) •
Different cultures and bodies of literature approach intellectual property and how competing
dynasties and marginalized voices exist beyond the dominant U.S. copyright paradigm. Offering a
transnational and interdisciplinary perspective Cultures of Copyright offers readers -
scholars researchers practitioners theorists and others - key considerations to contemplate
in terms of how we understand copyright's past and how we chart its futures.
