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Jul 16, 2020 · Susan Scafidi, the academic director of Fordham University’s Fashion Law Institute and a Yale Law School alum, defines cultural appropriation as taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expression, or artifacts from another culture without permission.
Mar 10, 2018 · Susan Scafidi was quoted in a Juneau Empire article about cultural appropriation. Fordham law professor Susan Scafidi defines cultural appropriation as “taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions or artifacts from someone else’s culture without permission including … dance, dress, music, language, folklore ...
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In the halls of academia, discourse regarding cultural appropriation arose in the late 1970s, sparked by the publication of Edward Said’s famous book “Orientalism.” In this work, Said explored how, in the West, cultural notions of the “orient” invariably aided and abettedthe material and cultural plundering of Asia. As research on the history of We...
There have been myriad cases of cultural appropriation of Indigenous and traditional cultures. However, some cases appear to be more clearly unethical and exploitative of culture than others. The vast plundering of Indigenous cultural artifacts, treasures and traditions that occurred throughout the colonial era provides the clearest historical exam...
The reality is that adjudicating between cultural appreciation and appropriation is never simple, and that is because cultures are vast, complex, historically determined and ever-changing. In the cases of both Kardashian and Jordan, I would argue that had either of them sought to establish true cultural appreciation for the cultures from which they...
In writingWho Owns Culture?, I have found that questioning the ownership and authenticity of “cultural products”—whether cuisine, dress, music, dance, folklore, handicrafts, images, healing arts, rituals, performances, natural resources, or language—seems guaranteed to produce the sort of mild indignation often caused by the discussion of
Scafidi, S. (2005). 1. The Commodification of Culture. In Who Owns Culture?: Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law (pp. 5-12). Ithaca, NY: Rutgers University Press. https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813537856-003
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Jul 28, 2023 · Marcos’ attire was a textbook case on “cultural appropriation,” defined as the “inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. of one people or society by members of another and typically more dominant people or society.”.
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Who Owns Culture? offers the first comprehensive analysis of cultural authorship and appropriation within American law. From indigenous art to Linux, Susan Scafidi takes the reader on a tour of the no-man's-land between law and culture, pausing to ask: What prompts us to offer legal protection to works of literature, but not folklore?
