• Contents


• Acknowledgments


• Chapter 1: Introduction


• Chapter 2: Copyright Over the Boarder: Freedom, Commons, Appropriation


• Chapter 3: No One Would Murder for a Pattern: Crafting IP in Online Knitting Communities


• Chapter 4: Growing a Patent Culture: Plant Hormones Research and the National Research Council


• Chapter 5: Exchange Practices Among Nineteenth-century US Newspaper Editors: Cooperation in Competition


• Chapter 6: Copying and the Case of the Legal Profession


• Chapter 7: Cultural Labor in a Small City: Motivations, Rewards, and Social Dynamics


• Chapter 8: The Art of the Copy: Labor, Originality, and Value in the Contemporary Art Market


• Afterword


• Bibliography


• Index

Laura J. Murray is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Queen's University. Her work in Indigenous Studies and American Literary History informs her work on copyright law. With Samuel E. Trosow, she is author of Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide (2007, 2013).
S. Tina Piper is Assistant Professor of Law at McGill University. Her doctoral dissertation at the University of Oxford explored the relationship between the professionalization of U.K. physicians and their Intellectual Property practices. She has also published on IP practices in the Canadian military, and on how present-day independent music labels in Montreal use and avoid IP law.
Kirsty Robertson is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Museum Studies in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on activism, visual culture, and changing economies.

Putting Intellectual Property in its Place examines the relationship between creativity and intellectual property law on the premise that, despite concentrated critical attention devoted to IP law from academic, policy and activist quarters, its role as a determinant of creative activity is overstated.