Book review : Laura J Murray, S Tina Piper and Kirsty Robertson putting intellectual property in its place : rights discourses, creative labor, and the everyday

Abstract

This short but confident book considers intellectual property ‘law’ in the most distanced sense. In essence, the book seeks to contextualize IP, the different roles it has to play and the contours it can take. Recognizing that there are multiple factors that influence creators, the authors explain the dissociation between the written law of IP and its conception and application in the ‘everyday’. The contribution of the book is therefore to set the social and historical context to IP law as we know it, rather than commenting on the state of law or its enforcement.