Authors: Jane M. Gaines, Alan Trachtenberg
ISBN-13: 9780807843260, ISBN-10: 0807843261
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, The
Date Published: November 1991
Edition: New Edition
Jane M. Gaines examines the phenomenon of images as property, focusing on the legal staus of mechanically produced visual and audio images from popular culture. Bridging the fields of critical legal studies and cultural studies, she analyzes copyright, trademark, and intellectual property law, asking how the law constructs works of authorship and who owns the country's cultural heritage.