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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This important collection of case studies adds significantly to the emerging body of empirical evidence that challenges IPs orthodoxy. Creativity and innovation do not necessarily depend on copyrights and patents. The book documents the fact that community self-governance can produce and sustain creative production across a broad range of subject matter. Eclecticism powers the book. The fascinating, provocative, and entertaining cases here range from more traditional IP-focused creative domains like film and fiction to creative fields operating beyond IP, like cuisine and medical practice, to outsider creative groups that have rejected IP, like tattoo artists and roller derby participants." -- Michael Madison,Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh
"Understanding how and why people create is central to the project of IP. This important new book catalogs the many ways in which people create without the benefit of IP law. One can find theories of copyright and creativity elsewhere. Here you will find real-world evidence of how people are creating without, and even despite, IP law." -- Mark A. Lemley,William H. Neukom Professor, Stanford Law School
"For years, physicists insisted bumble bees couldnt fly. And yet, the laws of physics notwithstanding, bumblebees flew. Likewise, for years, IP lawyers have insisted that without strong IP protection, creativity cannot flourish. IP lawyers: meet the bumblebee. In this beautifully written and powerfully structured collection, the best of IPs scholars show that actual complexity of creativity, and its inspiration." -- Lawrence Lessig,Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School
"This volume expands our understanding of organic systems of protection designed to preserve incentives for innovation in IPs negative spaces. It willundoubtedly provoke much debate, stimulate new research, and give rise to some interesting future conferences." * Journal of Economic Literature *
