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Copyright beyond law : regulating creativity in the graffiti subculture / Marta Iljadica.
"The form of graffiti writing on trains and walls is not accidental. Nor is its absence on cars and houses. Employing a particular style of letters, choosing which walls and trains to write on, copying another writer, altering or destroying another writer's work: these acts are regulated within the graffiti subculture. Copyright Beyond Law presents findings from empirical research undertaken into the graffiti subculture to show that graffiti writers informally regulate their creativity through a system of norms that are remarkably similar to copyright. The 'graffiti rules' and their copyright law parallels include: the requirement of writing letters (subject matter) and appropriate placement (public policy and morality exceptions for copyright subsistence and the enforcement of copyright), originality and the prohibition of copying (originality and infringement by reproduction), and the prohibition of damage to another writer's works (the moral right of integrity). The intersection between the 'graffiti rules' and copyright law sheds light on the creation of subculture-specific commons and the limits of copyright law in incentivising and regulating the production and location of creativity." --publisher's description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781849467773
- ISBN: 1849467773
- Physical Description: xiii, 310 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Oxford ; Hart Publishing, 2016.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A note on pictures -- Introduction -- Panel I. Context. Graffiti history and development -- Copyright, creativity, and commons -- Methodology : reflections on fieldwork -- Panel II. Form. Copyright : subject matter -- Graffiti rules? : write letters, choose spots -- Panel III. Copying. Copyright : originality and infringement -- Graffiti rules : be original, don't bite -- Panel IV. Reputation. Moral rights -- Graffiti rules : don't go over -- Panel V. Interaction. Graffiti rules and copyright law -- Conclusions. |
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| Subject: | Copyright > Art. Public art > Law and legislation. Law and art. Graffiti > History. Street art > History. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Emily Carr University of Art + Design | K1460 .I45 2016 (Text) | 30231370 | Book | Volume hold | Checked out | 2025-04-11 |
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âGraffiti breaks every rule but within itself still has rules.â The form of graffiti on trains and walls is not accidental, nor is its absence on cars and (most) houses. Graffiti writing has rules: employing a particular style of letters, choosing which walls and trains to write on, copying another writer, altering or destroying another writerâs work are all regulated within the subculture. Copyright Beyond Law draws attention to the interaction between copyright and the graffiti rules in the sense that graffiti is beyond copyright, because copyright cannot account for crucial aspects of the process of producing graffiti in such a way as to recognize the importance of pleasure and community belonging to those who produce it, but also because the alternative normative framework that is produced to support the creative process is a form of regulation that stands apart from and is beyond legal rules. Five parts or âpanelsâ divide the book. The first provides the context for the graffiti rules and copyright rules as well as an overview of methodology. The bookâs second (third and fourth) panels identify, based on the fieldwork data, a set of graffiti rules and also examines them in relation to the analogous copyright rules. Iljadica cites that the common threads in the discussion of the similarities and difference between the copyright rules and graffiti rules argue that copyright law and the graffiti rules share common concerns with the development of culture. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - International Specialized Book Services
The form of graffiti writing on trains and walls is not accidental. Nor is its absence on cars and houses. Employing a particular style of letters, choosing which walls and trains to write on, copying another writer, altering or destroying another writer's work: these acts are regulated within the graffiti subculture. Copyright Beyond Law presents findings from empirical research undertaken into the graffiti subculture to show that graffiti writers informally regulate their creativity through a system of norms that are remarkably similar to copyright. The 'graffiti rules' and their copyright law parallels include: the requirement of writing letters (subject matter) and appropriate placement (public policy and morality exceptions for copyright subsistence and the enforcement of copyright), originality and the prohibition of copying (originality and infringement by reproduction), and the prohibition of damage to another writer's works (the moral right of integrity). The intersection between the 'graffiti rules' and copyright law sheds light on the creation of subculture-specific commons and the limits of copyright law in incentivising and regulating the production and location of creativity. - McMillan Palgrave
The form of graffiti writing on trains and walls is not accidental. Nor is its absence on cars and houses. Employing a particular style of letters, choosing which walls and trains to write on, copying another writer, altering or destroying another writer's work: these acts are regulated within the graffiti subculture. Copyright Beyond Law presents findings from empirical research undertaken into the graffiti subculture to show that graffiti writers informally regulate their creativity through a system of norms that are remarkably similar to copyright.
The 'graffiti rules' and their copyright law parallels include: the requirement of writing letters (subject matter) and appropriate placement (public policy and morality exceptions for copyright subsistence and the enforcement of copyright), originality and the prohibition of copying (originality and infringement by reproduction), and the prohibition of damage to another writer's works (the moral right of integrity). The intersection between the 'graffiti rules' and copyright law sheds light on the creation of subculture-specific commons and the limits of copyright law in incentivising and regulating the production and location of creativity.
