Adventures in Childhood: Volume 60 - Intellectual Property, Imagination and the Business of Play

Adventures in Childhood looks at the business of play and the development of modern intellectual property rights as they evolved in the twentieth century. In doing so, the book explores the paradoxical relationship between exploitation and innocence and the controversies that underpin the construction of the child as a consumer.

List of contents

1. Commercialisation and the Innocent Child; 2. Books, Toy Books and the Artfulness of Consumption; 3. Instructions for a Successful Boy; 4. Animated Properties; 5. Licensing Gone Wrong; 6. The Rise of Merchandising Agencies; 7. Troubles at the British Broadcasting Corporation; 8. Conclusion: Unsuitable for Children.

About the author

Jose Bellido teaches law at the University of Kent (UK). He is particularly interested in the history of intellectual property law and has additional research interests in legal theory, evidence and legal history. His most recent book project as editor and contributor is Landmark Cases in Intellectual Property Law (Hart Publishing, 2017).Kathy Bowrey is a legal and cultural historian interested in how cultural commodification operates on a global scale. Her most recent works include Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value: Incorporating the Author, (Routledge, 2021). She is a Co-Director of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property.

Summary

Adventures in Childhood looks at the business of play and the development of modern intellectual property rights as they evolved in the twentieth century. In doing so, the book explores the paradoxical relationship between exploitation and innocence and the controversies that underpin the construction of the child as a consumer.

Foreword

This book shows how intellectual property turned the family into a market while, simultaneously, the market became a family.

Product details

• Authors: Jose Bellido, Jose (University of Kent Bellido, Bellido Jose, Kathy Bowrey, Bowrey Kathy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781108485913
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48591-3
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; Media Studies, LAW / Intellectual Property / General, Social Law, intellectual property law, Entertainment & media law, Entertainment and media law, Social law and Medical law