Thursday, January 19, 2017

Copyright Beyond Law

Marta Iljadica (University of Southampton), Copyright Beyond Law: Regulating Creativity in the Graffiti Subculture (Hart 2016).

"The form of graffiti writing on trains and walls is not accidental. Nor is its absence on cars and houses. Employing a particular style of letters, choosing which walls and trains to write on, copying another writer, altering or destroying another writer's work: these acts are regulated within the graffiti subculture. Copyright Beyond Law presents findings from empirical research undertaken into the graffiti subculture to show that graffiti writers informally regulate their creativity through a system of norms that are remarkably similar to copyright."


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