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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Knockoff Economy
    sub title: How Imitation Sparks Innovation
  name:
    name part: Sprigman, Christopher.
    role:
      role term: aut
  name:
    name part: Raustiala, Kal.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: dissertations.
  genre: Academic theses
  genre: Academic theses.
  genre: Thèses et écrits académiques.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (281 pages)
  abstract: From the shopping mall to the corner bistro, knockoffs are everywhere in today's marketplace. Conventional wisdom holds that copying kills creativity, and that laws that protect against copies are essential to innovation--and economic success. But are copyrights and patents always necessary? In The Knockoff Economy, Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman provocatively argue that creativity can not only survive in the face of copying, but can thrive. The Knockoff Economy approaches the question of incentives and innovation in a wholly new way--by exploring creative fields where copying is generally legal, such as fashion, food, and even professional football. By uncovering these important but rarely studied industries, Raustiala and Sprigman reveal a nuanced and fascinating relationship between imitation and innovation. In some creative fields, copying is kept in check through informal industry norms enforced by private sanctions. In others, the freedom to copy actually promotes creativity. High fashion gave rise to the very term "knockoff," yet the freedom to imitate great designs only makes the fashion cycle run faster--and forces the fashion industry to be even more creative. Raustiala and Sprigman carry their analysis from food to font design to football plays to finance, examining how and why each of these vibrant industries remains innovative even when imitation is common. There is an important thread that ties all these instances together--successful creative industries can evolve to the point where they become inoculated against--and even profit from--a world of free and easy copying. And there are important lessons here for copyright-focused industries, like music and film, that have struggled as digital technologies have made copying increasingly widespread and difficult to stop. Raustiala and Sprigman's arguments have been making headlines in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, Le Monde, and at the Freakonomics blog, …
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Knockoffs and Fashion Victims -- Chapter 3: Cuisine, Copying, and Creativity -- Chapter 4: Comedy Vigilantes -- Chapter 5: Football, Fonts, Finance, and Feist -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Copies and Creativity -- Chapter 7: Epilogue: The Future is Music.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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    topic: Economic aspects
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    topic: Copyright
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  subject:
    topic: Intellectual property
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  subject:
    topic: Copyright
    topic: Music
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Sound recordings
    topic: Pirated editions
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Piratage (Droit d'auteur)
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Piratage (Droit d'auteur)
    topic: Aspect économique
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    topic: Propriété intellectuelle
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    topic: Droit d'auteur
    topic: Musique
    geographic: États-Unis
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    topic: Enregistrements sonores
    topic: Piratage
    geographic: États-Unis
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    topic: LAW
    topic: Intellectual Property
    topic: General
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    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: Business Ethics
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    topic: Copyright
    topic: Music
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    topic: Intellectual property
  subject:
    topic: Piracy (Copyright)
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    topic: Piracy (Copyright)
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Sound recordings
    topic: Pirated editions
  subject:
    geographic: United States
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