Commodity Culture, Private Censorship, Branded Environments, and Global Trade Politics: Intellectual Property as a Topic of Law and Society Research

This chapter contains section titled: The Commodification of Culture: The Communicative Conditions of Intellectual Property Controlling Access: The Exercise of Intellectual Property as Social Control The Social Life of the Trademark The Global Information Economy: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion The Fate of the Commons: The Politics of Protecting the Public Domain in Informational Economies Note References Further Reading