Intersections: Negotiating the Spaces of Intellectual Property Under the Conditions of Neoliberalism

Nicole Aylwin is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Communication and Culture Graduate Programme at York University On September 23, 2010, the York Centre for Public Policy and Law brought together one anthropologist, one political scientist and one socio-legal scholar to discuss the potential for ‘protecting’ the knowledge and heritage of indigenous people under international law […]

Old Issues but New Tricks: China uses the UNESCO Cultural Diversity Convention in a WTO dispute

Nicole Aylwin is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Communication and Culture Graduate Programme at York University. This past December the World Trade Organization appellate body ruled against China in a dispute with the United States. The US initiated the dispute in 2007 to address three concerns: 1) China was prohibiting foreign businesses from importing publications, […]

Moving from Property towards Policy: Intellectual Property as Cultural Policy

Nicole Aylwin is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Communication and Culture Graduate Programme at York University. "Cultural policies, in brief, are those that regulate what has been called the marketplace of ideas" -- Paul DiMaggio It may seem questionable to preface a post on intellectual property with a quotation that addresses cultural policy rather than […]