Open AccessFrom Barbie to Renoir: Intellectual Property and Culture
Author(s) -
Susy Frankel
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
victoria university of wellington law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-3082
pISSN - 1171-042X
DOI - 10.26686/vuwlr.v41i1.5248
Subject(s) - intellectual property , sociology , publishing , popular culture , social science , property (philosophy) , law , political science , media studies , philosophy , epistemology
Barbie has become part of popular culture and this inaugural professorial lecture uses her iconic cultural status to discuss the relationship between culture and intellectual property. Intellectualproperty is frequently treated in New Zealand as primarily involving economic policy. However, it is also part of cultural policy. In her inaugural lecture, Professor Susy Frankel discusses how thearticulation of the relationship between intellectual property and cultural values could lead to an improved intellectual property law for New Zealand, particularly in the fields of copyright and trade marks.