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It is not uncommon for white suburban youths to perform rap music, for New York fashion designers to ransack the world''s closets for inspiration, or for Euro-American authors to adopt the voice of a geisha or shaman. But who really owns these art forms? Is it the community in which they were originally generated, or the culture that has absorbed them?

While claims of authenticity or quality may prompt some consumers to seek cultural products at their source, the communities of origin are generally unable to exclude copyists through legal action. Like other works of unincorporated group authorship, cultural products lack protection under our system of intellectual property law. But is this legal vacuum an injustice, the lifeblood of American culture, a historical oversight, a result of administrative incapacity, or all of the above?

Who Owns Culture? offers the first comprehensive analysis of cultural authorship and appropriation within American law. From

Who Owns Culture Appropriation and Authenticity

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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: 08/06/2005
      ISBN13: 9780813536064, 978-0813536064
      ISBN10: 0813536065
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      It is not uncommon for white suburban youths to perform rap music, for New York fashion designers to ransack the world''s closets for inspiration, or for Euro-American authors to adopt the voice of a geisha or shaman. But who really owns these art forms? Is it the community in which they were originally generated, or the culture that has absorbed them?

      While claims of authenticity or quality may prompt some consumers to seek cultural products at their source, the communities of origin are generally unable to exclude copyists through legal action. Like other works of unincorporated group authorship, cultural products lack protection under our system of intellectual property law. But is this legal vacuum an injustice, the lifeblood of American culture, a historical oversight, a result of administrative incapacity, or all of the above?

      Who Owns Culture? offers the first comprehensive analysis of cultural authorship and appropriation within American law. From

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