Creating economy : enterprise, intellectual property, and the valuation of goods / Barbara Townley, Philip Roscoe and Nicola Searle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Townley, Barbara, 1954- author.

Roscoe, Philip, author.

Searle, Nicola, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural industries--Economic aspects.

Cultural industries.

Intellectual property.

Value.

Physical Description:

x, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Creativity is at the vanguard of contemporary capitalism, valorised as a form of capital in its own right. It is the centrepiece of the vaunted 'creative economy', the creative industries, and is increasingly a focus of public policy. But what is economic about creativity? How can creative labour become the basis for a distinctive global industry? And how has the solitary artist, a figment of the romantic thought, become the creative entrepreneur of twenty-first0century economic imagining? This book offers a fresh approach to this topic within the creative industries through a focus on intellectual property. It follows IP and its associated rights (IPR) through the creative economy, showing how it shapes creative products and configures the economic agency of creative producers. IP helps to manage risk, settle what is valuable, extract revenues, and protect future profits. It is the central mechanism in organising the market for creative goods. 0Most importantly, it shows that IP/IPR is crucial in the dialectic between symbolic and economic value on which the creative industries depend; IP/IPR hold the creative industries together. This book is based on a detailed empirical study of creative producers in the UK, extending the sociological studies of markets to an analysis of the UK's creative industries. In doing so, it makes an important, empirically grounded contribution to debates around creativity, entrepreneurship, and uncertainty0in creative industries, and will be of interest to scholars and policymakers alike.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Creating Economy p. 1

The 'Creative Industries'? p. 3

Cultural Entrepreneurship? p. 7

Doing 'Cultural Economy' p. 10

Institutional Facts and Scholastic Fallacies p. 13

The IP/IPR Nexus p. 18

Our Study: The Journey of IP/IPR p. 22

2 IP/IPR as a Market Object p. 27

Originality and Creatorship p. 28

Art as Collective, Collaborative Work p. 32

The Liminality of IP/IPR p. 38

Moral versus Legal 'Rights' p. 44

Notes on Rights Conventions by Creative Field p. 47

3 IP/IPR and Economic Agency p. 50

Economizing Actors p. 51

Disciplining the Creative Self p. 58

'Work' as Product p. 66

4 Nobody Knows: Managing Uncertainty p. 75

Creativity, Uncertainty, and Entrepreneurship p. 77

Managing Uncertainty through IP p. 79

Managing Risk through IPR p. 91

5 Constructing Value p. 101

Symbolic Value and Economic Worth p. 103

Recognizing the Value of IP p. 109

The IPR Object and Boundary Construction p. 114

IP/IPR as the Business of Creative Work p. 120

6 Realizing Value p. 124

Industry Structures and Standards p. 125

Pricing and Selling p. 130

Market Intermediaries p. 137

Licensing p. 144

Collecting Societies p. 148

The Economic Value of Value p. 150

7 Protecting Value p. 154

Attitudes to Copying p. 157

Recourse to Law p. 166

Other Strategies of Protection p. 169

8 Conclusion: The Ambiguities of IP/IPR p. 176

Implications for IP Policies p. 182.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-214) and index.

ISBN:

9780198795285

0198795289

OCLC:

1040617642