Creativity and its Discontents : China's Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses / Laikwan Pang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pang, Laikwan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Creativity and Its Discontents is a sharp critique of the intellectual property rights (IPR)-based creative economy, particularly as it is embraced or ignored in China. Laikwan Pang argues that the creative economy-in which creativity is an individual asset to be commodified and protected as property-is an intensification of Western modernity and capitalism at odds with key aspects of Chinese culture. Nevertheless, globalization has compelled China to undertake endeavors involving intellectual property rights. Pang examines China's IPR-compliant industries, as well as its numerous copyright violations. She describes how China promotes intellectual property rights in projects such as the development of cultural tourism in the World Heritage city of Lijiang, the transformation of Hong Kong cinema, and the cultural branding of Beijing. Meanwhile, copyright infringement proliferates, angering international trade organizations. Pang argues that piracy and counterfeiting embody the intimate connection between creativity and copying. She points to the lack of copyright protections for Japanese anime as the motor of China's dynamic anime culture. Theorizing the relationship between knockoffs and appropriation art, Pang offers an incisive interpretation of China's flourishing art scene. Creativity and Its Discontents is a refreshing rejoinder to uncritical celebrations of the creative economy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I Understanding Creativity

ONE Creativity as a Problem of Modernity

TWO Creativity as a Product of Labor

THREE Creativity as a Construct of rights

Part II China's Creative Industries and IPR Offenses

FOUR Cultural Policy, Intellectual Property rights, and Cultural tourism

FIVE Cinema as a Creative Industry

SIX Branding the Creative City with Fine Arts

SEVEN Animation and transcultural Signification

EIGHT A Semiotics of the Counterfeit Product

NINE Imitation or Appropriation Arts?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478091530

1478091533

OCLC:

1250395288