Structures of Sharing: Depropriation and Intellectual Property Law

AuthorMarcus Boon
Pages405-416
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Structures of Sharing: Depropriation and
Intellectual Property Law
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 : Intellectual property law is concerned with control over
the production and distribution of copies (“materially xed expressions”)
of ideas. Copies are in fact ubiquitous and the attempt to situate copies
within a certain discourse or discipline relies on particular philosophical
decisions that can be shown, historically and otherwise, to be nally polit-
ical and ideological. If the copy always evades and exceeds disciplinarity, in-
cluding “multidisciplinarity” and law, what do we do about these copies that
are ultimately depropriated, that is, lacking a “proper” place or location, yet
nonetheless recognizably present? The author explores the work of French
lmmaker Jean-Luc Godard as an example of an attempt to think and make
a copy-based art that refuses the logic of IP, and argues that legal scholars
need to consider broader issues of political economy when debating con-
temporary IP law.
: Le droit de la propriété intellectuelle s’intéresse au contrôle de
la production et de la distribution de copies d’idées (« xations matérielles
de l’expression »). Les copies sont omniprésentes et la tentative de les situer
à l’intérieur d’un certain discours ou discipline dépend de décisions philo-
sophiques particulières dont on peut, de façon historique ou autre, nale-
ment démontrer le caractère politique ou idéologique. Si la copie se sous-
trait toujours à la disciplinarité y compris la « multidisciplinarité » et
au droit, et les dépasse, que pouvons-nous faire de ces copies qui sont ul-
timement désappropriées, c’est-à-dire auxquelles manquent une place ou

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