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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154315803321

Titolo

The luxury economy and intellectual property : critical reflections

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-19-933572-9

0-19-935042-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Disciplina

346.04/8

Soggetti

Luxury goods industry - Law and legislation

Intellectual property

Law, General & Comparative

Law, Politics & Government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Luxury and its opposites : a critical fashion studies perspective / Susan B. Kaiser, Joseph H. Hancock II, and Sara T. Bernstein -- The story of luxury products and the (broken) promise of superior quality in a world of prestige for the masses / Irene Calboli -- The economics of demand for counterfeiting / Yi Qian -- Brands r us / Mario Biagioli, Anupam Chander, and Madhavi Sunder -- Parody as brand / Stacey L. Dogan and Mark A. Lemley -- Stolen valor and stolen luxury : free speech and exclusivity / Rebecca Tushnet -- The gender of trademarks and luxury branding / Ann Bartow -- Upstairs/downstairs, fashionwise : a view of design protection from lower down the food chain / Diane Leenheer Zimmerman -- Shanzhai, sumptuary law, and intellectual property law in contemporary China / Barton Beebe -- The ethical responsibilities of luxury companies and consumers / Haochen Sun -- The scholarship of envy : how the framing of fashion leaves a legal lacuna / Susan Scafidi -- Let them eat fake cake : the rational weakness of China's anti-counterfeiting policy / Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman -- A perspective from Asia : special protection for luxury brands, legal sense or nonsense? / David Llewelyn -- Cosmopolitanism and the transnational trademark / Sonia K. Katyal.

Sommario/riassunto

This title explores the rise of the luxury goods economy and the



growing role of intellectual property in creating, sustaining, and regulating this economy. Leading scholars across various disciplines critically consider the industry, its foundational intellectual property laws, and the public interest and social concerns arising from the intersection of economics and law.