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- 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.
news.law.fordham.edu/blog/2020/07/16/cultural-appropriation-was-always-inexcusable/Cultural Appropriation Was Always Inexcusable - Fordham Law News
Jan 1, 2005 · 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 What prompts us to offer legal protection to works of literature, but not folklore?
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- Susan Scafidi
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
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...
- Susan Scafidi
While claims of authenticity or quality may prompt some consumers to seek “cultural products” at their source, the communities of origin are generally unable to exclude copyists through legal action. Like other works of unincorporated group authorship, cultural products lack protection under our system of intellectual property law.
- Susan Scafidi
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...
According to Susan Scafidi, cultural appropriation is “taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else's culture without permission
