From goods to a good life : intellectual property and global justice / Madhavi Sunder.

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2012]

©2012

K1401 .S86 2012

9780300146714 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
030014671X (hardcover ; alk. paper)

256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

(OCoLC)759174483

Most scholarship on intellectual property considers this law from the standpoint of law and economics. Under this conventional wisdom, intellectual property is simply a tool for promoting innovative products, from iPods to R2D2. In this highly original book Madhavi Sunder calls for a richer understanding of intellectual property law's effects on social and cultural life. Intellectual property does more than incentivize the production of more goods. This law fundamentally affects the ability of citizens to live a good life. Intellectual property law governs the abilities of human beings to make and share culture, and to profit from this enterprise in a global Knowledge economy. This book turns to social and cultural theory to more fully explore the deep connections between cultural production and human freedom. -- Book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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