Structures of Sharing: Depropriation and Intellectual Property Law
Author | Marcus Boon |
Pages | 405-416 |
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Structures of Sharing: Depropriation and
Intellectual Property Law
: 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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