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Who gets to control culture, knowledge, and innovation? From patents over Indigenous traditional knowledge to appropriation of LGBTQ+ symbols, and copyright over translated fan works, intellectual property law sits at the heart of struggles over power, identity, and belonging. Yet these intersections have too often remained underexplored in intellectual property scholarship.
This book brings diverse voices to the centre of intellectual property discourse by re-reading copyright, trade marks and patents through the perspectives of historically marginalised communities, and applying interdisciplinary methodologies. It shows how these communities and perspectives can help in re-imaging creativity, innovation, and culture.
Key features include:
• Clear, accessible explanations of core IP concepts alongside critical analytical tools.
• Interdisciplinary approaches that expose the power dynamics embedded in intellectual property.
• Extensive engagement with scholarship and voices often overlooked in the field.
Bold, accessible, and analytically rigorous, this book equips readers to understand IP law not only as a technical regime but as a terrain of cultural politics and social justice.
Caoimhe Ring, Lecturer at the University of Bristol Law School
Eden Sarid, Lecturer at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London
Introduction – Caoimhe Ring and Eden Sarid
Part 1: Intellectual Property’s Creators
1. Copyright Markets and Marginalised Communities: A “Winner-Takes-All” Model? – Martin Kretschmer, Amy Thomas and Arthur Ehlinger
2. Negative Spaces in Fashion Law: Rethinking IP Effectiveness Through Empirical Socio-Legal Approaches – Tania Phipps-Rufus
3. Selling Fandom Back to Itself: The Case of English-Language Danmei Publishing – Yin Harn Lee
Part 2: Intellectual Property’s Subjects: Contested Boundaries
4. Intellectual “Property”? Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property Essentialism – Graham Dutfield
5. Indigenous Knowledge and the Public Domain – Jocelyn Bosse
6. Balancing Laughs and Laws: Parody, Power, and the Politics of Copyright Law Harmonisation – Adela Wang
Part 3: Reimagining Intellectual Property: Queer, Feminist, Race, and Critical (Dis)ability Perspectives
7. Pleasure Patents in Europe From 1978 – Darren Smyth
8. Can Trade Mark Law Prevent Diversity Hijacking? – Luminita Olteanu
9. Humanity of Songs: A Feminist Reconstruction of Performers’ Rights – Metka Potočnik
10. ‘Towards a (Dis)ability Account of Patent Law and Inventorship’ – Caoimhe Ring
Part 4: Who Makes and Shapes Intellectual Property?
11. ‘AI and Copyright Law: Who Lobbies for the Public Domain?’ – Alina Trapova
12. When IP Policymakers and NGOs meet: A Dialogue Between IP Inclusive and the Intellectual Property Office – Erich Hou-Richards
13. IP in the Global South - Transforming or Replicating the System? – Vitor Ido