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Articles by Jose Bellido

Pólemos Journal of Law, Literature and Culture, 2023

In 1985, Marianne Mele Hall, the chairman of the Copyright Royalty Tribunal, resigned after a con... more In 1985, Marianne Mele Hall, the chairman of the Copyright Royalty Tribunal, resigned after a controversy surrounding her role in writing Lawrence Hafstad's book, Foundations of Sand (1982), which included several racist passages. Although at first she claimed to have been the co-author, when the scandal broke she tried to avoid the political controversy by describing her role as a ghost writer or an editor. While the effort was to no avail and she had to resign, it nevertheless prompted an interesting epistolary conversation between the information scientist, Eugene Garfield, and the sociologist of science, Robert K. Merton, about the differences between the two terms. This essay looks at that correspondence and situates it alongside the emergence of the information industry affecting copyright.

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Library & Information History, 2023

Patent systems rely on information infrastructures that enable searchers, examiners, and other sp... more Patent systems rely on information infrastructures that enable searchers, examiners, and other specialists not only to consider legal requirements but also to gather market intelligence, competitor analysis, and other strategic business information. These resources are today considered fundamental to the assessment of a patent system's performance in terms of its reliability and legitimacy. However, this potential was constrained historically by the multiplicity of formats, languages, and time frames in which patents in different jurisdictions were published and issued. This essay traces how a secondary market for patent information materialised from a distinct commercial engagement with these peculiarities of patents as documents. In doing so, the essay explores how patent literature was abstracted, centralised, and filtered through private information providers such as Derwent Publications Ltd that began offering customised patent information products and services in the postwar decades.

How did microfilm come to shape patent work? This article shows that, despite initial resistance ... more How did microfilm come to shape patent work? This article shows that, despite initial resistance to the new medium, microfilms changed not just search rooms but international connections and collaborations. It traces how legal and media technologies coalesced by considering how microfilm changed the patent office and the work of patent examiners and information brokers. As a photographic medium, microfilm enabled patents to be seen differently: not merely as documents, but as a distinct literature that could be abstracted, linked, and disseminated. The article explores how microfilm technology changed the ways that patents were organized, distributed, and used.

Can one reject copyright law and be a qualified observer of its dispositives? This question was t... more Can one reject copyright law and be a qualified observer of its dispositives? This question was taken up by Bertolt Brecht in an intriguing essay concerning the litigation surrounding the film adaptation of The Threepenny Opera (1928). Brecht here develops an experimental observation around the nature of film adaptation and cultural production in copyright. While an experimental approach to law was in itself a subversive gesture, the specific legal process enabled him to expose the paradoxical ways in which the copyright system worked.

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Lexical properties: Trademarks, dictionaries, and the sense of the generic 1 9 This difference wa... more Lexical properties: Trademarks, dictionaries, and the sense of the generic 1 9 This difference was also made explicit in the framework of trademark litigation; see " TARZAN" Trade Mark [1969] FSR 271; 'Rotorake' Trade Mark' [1968] RPC 36. 10 Meeting between J. Field (ITMA) and Ward Dyer (UK Patent Office) in "Webster's International 30 More than three decades after the famous cellophane trademark litigation, the last surviving attorney who represented DuPont, TW Stephenson, recalled how the litigation involved "two sets of public polls one from us and the other from the Waxed Products Company. Our poll showed that the public related the word -cellophane-solely to the DuPont Company and its transparent wrapping paper. The opposing poll showed that the public related the word solely to transparent wrapping paper regardless of who made it. The lower court chose our poll and declared the defendant to be an infringer of our valid trademark. The higher court took the position that the questions on our poll were couched in terms calculated to lead the witness into giving us favourable answers." WG Reynolds to

This essay offers a reinterpretation of the constitution of intellectual property as an academic ... more This essay offers a reinterpretation of the constitution of intellectual property as an academic subject by focusing on the work of Thomas Anthony Blanco White . His textbooks were fundamental for the development of 'intellectual property' in Britain and the Commonwealth. Not only did they provide the basis for a discipline in the making, their timely publication also helped to connect and, more importantly, constitute a diverse audience of articled clerks, practitioners and students. This essay traces the making of Blanco's first booklets and his subsequent rewriting of them, which culminated in the publication of what would become a standard textbook writing technique in British intellectual property in the twentieth century. In explaining the history of these textbooks and their pivotal role for the recognition of intellectual property as an academic subject in the university curriculum, the essay explores the ways in which a distinctive knowledge of and writing about intellectual property emerged in Britain in the post-war years.

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This article is an attempt to reflect on the critical role of collectivisation in music copyright... more This article is an attempt to reflect on the critical role of collectivisation in music copyright in the 20th century. It traces the initial struggles of the Performing Right Society (PRS) to explore how music copyright was constituted and how it handled the transition from rights to royalties in a context of rapidly changing technologies. In so doing, it follows the initial controversies around the ways in which specific tariffs affected musical labour, the development of litigation techniques and the establishment of bureaucratic infrastructures that connected musical data to rights. The argument is that copyright and collective management were constitutive of distinctive business activities that triggered what came to be defined as the "music industry". Our suggestion is that music copyright in Britain was anchored in practices and strategies developed by this emerging collective subject built around copyright, which, in turn, shaped the ways in which the industry imagined itself. Introduction 1 More than two decades ago, Helen Wallace highlighted the differences between book and music publishing. "Unlike book publishing", she said, "the physical sale of the music itself is not the core business; the central asset is the copyright which, again unlike book publishing, rests with the publisher". 2 Such a commercially significant difference left distinctive marks in music copyright throughout the 20th century, and was particularly evident in the constitution of the Performing Right Society (PRS). As is well documented in standard histories of copyright, the music publisher William Boosey (1864-1933) from Chappell & Co, was behind the move that established the collecting society. Although the history of the society is often told as a success story, the first decades of the society were highly controversial, full of conflicts and hesitations over its methods of operation and constitution. Even for closely related music publishers, the society was not the only (or the best) way to conduct business. For instance, his cousin's company, Boosey & Co, was initially reluctant to participate in the new society. 3 Likewise, Novello & Co did not join until 1936, two decades after its birth. 4 This essay traces the initial struggles of the collective to explore how music copyright was constituted in the 20th century and how it handled the transition from recognition to distribution, from rights to royalties, in a context of rapidly changing technologies. In so *232 doing, it follows initial controversies around the ways in which specific tariffs affected musical labour to argue that copyright and collective management were constitutive of distinctive business activities that triggered what came to be defined as the "music industry". More specifically, our suggestion is that music copyright in Britain was anchored in practices and strategies developed by this emerging collective subject built around copyright, which, in turn, shaped the ways in which the industry imagined itself.

The essay explores some recent controversies in British music copyright through the evolving tech... more The essay explores some recent controversies in British music copyright through the evolving technologies used to perform or play music in the courtroom. Whilst the conceptual tension between cases has caused doctrinal anxiety about the effect of popular music in copyright, the essay contends that the recent stream of music copyright cases can be considered from a historical perspective, taking into account the tools, materials and experts as they featured in court. In doing so, the essay connects a history of legal expertise to the emergence of new technologies whilst arguing that legal knowledge about music copyright was, in fact, stabilized in the courtroom.

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Trade marks have been understood as quintessential 'bureaucratic properties'. This article sugges... more Trade marks have been understood as quintessential 'bureaucratic properties'. This article suggests that the making of trade marks has been historically influenced by bureaucratic practices of search and classification, which in turn were affected by the possibilities and limits of spatial organisation and technological means of access and storage. It shows how the organisation of access and retrieval did not only condition the possibility of conceiving new trade marks, but also served to delineate their intangible proprietary boundaries. Thereby they framed the very meaning of a trade mark. By advancing a historical analysis that is sensitive to shifts, both in actual materiality and in the administrative routines of trade mark law, the article highlights the legal form of trade mark as inherently social and materially shaped. We propose a historical understanding of trade mark law that regards legal practice and bureaucratic routines as being co-constitutive of the very legal object itself. 198. For an initial attempt to 'chart how bureaucratic culture affects the operation of the trade mark system', see Burrell , pp 95-131. 3 On the importance of registry for the functioning of law and law's constitutive relationship to media technology, see Vismann (2008), pp 79-85. GRIFFITH LAW REVIEW, 2016 http://dx.

The practice of watching trade mark applications silently emerged alongside the history of trade ... more The practice of watching trade mark applications silently emerged alongside the history of trade mark law in the 20th century as an odd but crucial paralegal activity. This article traces that distinctive, if often overlooked, emergence and the controversies that initially surrounded its professional status and legitimacy. After looking at the different ways in which watching practices successfully overcame suspicion and criticism, the article explores the strategic role of watchers as mediators and facilitators of knowledge against jurisdictional challenges, and shows how their notifications fuelled corporate aspirations beyond national (trade mark) offices. In doing so, the article examines the impact of computerisation, not only on watching trade marks but also on the conceptual and material infrastructure of trade mark law. The underlying argument is that the construction of the intangible property afforded by trade marks was not only and exclusively an effect of consumers' projections and identifications. Rather, watching practices also encouraged trade mark owners to speculate on the contours of "intangible" property and its potential viability at home and abroad.

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The essay explores the interactive role of experts in the construction of the intangible object i... more The essay explores the interactive role of experts in the construction of the intangible object in copyright law. It pays special attention to the interventions and eventual connections of a British design consultant and fashion designer, Victor Herbert, in different copyright cases such as the well-known Designers Guild Ltd v. Russell Williams (Textiles) Ltd [2001]. The article traces the background of his early court appearances as an expert witness and the range of visual techniques and experiments he developed to "materialize" the incorporeal in copyright law.

Pólemos Journal of Law, Literature and Culture, 2023

In 1985, Marianne Mele Hall, the chairman of the Copyright Royalty Tribunal, resigned after a con... more In 1985, Marianne Mele Hall, the chairman of the Copyright Royalty Tribunal, resigned after a controversy surrounding her role in writing Lawrence Hafstad's book, Foundations of Sand (1982), which included several racist passages. Although at first she claimed to have been the co-author, when the scandal broke she tried to avoid the political controversy by describing her role as a ghost writer or an editor. While the effort was to no avail and she had to resign, it nevertheless prompted an interesting epistolary conversation between the information scientist, Eugene Garfield, and the sociologist of science, Robert K. Merton, about the differences between the two terms. This essay looks at that correspondence and situates it alongside the emergence of the information industry affecting copyright.

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Library & Information History, 2023

Patent systems rely on information infrastructures that enable searchers, examiners, and other sp... more Patent systems rely on information infrastructures that enable searchers, examiners, and other specialists not only to consider legal requirements but also to gather market intelligence, competitor analysis, and other strategic business information. These resources are today considered fundamental to the assessment of a patent system's performance in terms of its reliability and legitimacy. However, this potential was constrained historically by the multiplicity of formats, languages, and time frames in which patents in different jurisdictions were published and issued. This essay traces how a secondary market for patent information materialised from a distinct commercial engagement with these peculiarities of patents as documents. In doing so, the essay explores how patent literature was abstracted, centralised, and filtered through private information providers such as Derwent Publications Ltd that began offering customised patent information products and services in the postwar decades.

How did microfilm come to shape patent work? This article shows that, despite initial resistance ... more How did microfilm come to shape patent work? This article shows that, despite initial resistance to the new medium, microfilms changed not just search rooms but international connections and collaborations. It traces how legal and media technologies coalesced by considering how microfilm changed the patent office and the work of patent examiners and information brokers. As a photographic medium, microfilm enabled patents to be seen differently: not merely as documents, but as a distinct literature that could be abstracted, linked, and disseminated. The article explores how microfilm technology changed the ways that patents were organized, distributed, and used.

Can one reject copyright law and be a qualified observer of its dispositives? This question was t... more Can one reject copyright law and be a qualified observer of its dispositives? This question was taken up by Bertolt Brecht in an intriguing essay concerning the litigation surrounding the film adaptation of The Threepenny Opera (1928). Brecht here develops an experimental observation around the nature of film adaptation and cultural production in copyright. While an experimental approach to law was in itself a subversive gesture, the specific legal process enabled him to expose the paradoxical ways in which the copyright system worked.

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Lexical properties: Trademarks, dictionaries, and the sense of the generic 1 9 This difference wa... more Lexical properties: Trademarks, dictionaries, and the sense of the generic 1 9 This difference was also made explicit in the framework of trademark litigation; see " TARZAN" Trade Mark [1969] FSR 271; 'Rotorake' Trade Mark' [1968] RPC 36. 10 Meeting between J. Field (ITMA) and Ward Dyer (UK Patent Office) in "Webster's International 30 More than three decades after the famous cellophane trademark litigation, the last surviving attorney who represented DuPont, TW Stephenson, recalled how the litigation involved "two sets of public polls one from us and the other from the Waxed Products Company. Our poll showed that the public related the word -cellophane-solely to the DuPont Company and its transparent wrapping paper. The opposing poll showed that the public related the word solely to transparent wrapping paper regardless of who made it. The lower court chose our poll and declared the defendant to be an infringer of our valid trademark. The higher court took the position that the questions on our poll were couched in terms calculated to lead the witness into giving us favourable answers." WG Reynolds to

This essay offers a reinterpretation of the constitution of intellectual property as an academic ... more This essay offers a reinterpretation of the constitution of intellectual property as an academic subject by focusing on the work of Thomas Anthony Blanco White . His textbooks were fundamental for the development of 'intellectual property' in Britain and the Commonwealth. Not only did they provide the basis for a discipline in the making, their timely publication also helped to connect and, more importantly, constitute a diverse audience of articled clerks, practitioners and students. This essay traces the making of Blanco's first booklets and his subsequent rewriting of them, which culminated in the publication of what would become a standard textbook writing technique in British intellectual property in the twentieth century. In explaining the history of these textbooks and their pivotal role for the recognition of intellectual property as an academic subject in the university curriculum, the essay explores the ways in which a distinctive knowledge of and writing about intellectual property emerged in Britain in the post-war years.

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This article is an attempt to reflect on the critical role of collectivisation in music copyright... more This article is an attempt to reflect on the critical role of collectivisation in music copyright in the 20th century. It traces the initial struggles of the Performing Right Society (PRS) to explore how music copyright was constituted and how it handled the transition from rights to royalties in a context of rapidly changing technologies. In so doing, it follows the initial controversies around the ways in which specific tariffs affected musical labour, the development of litigation techniques and the establishment of bureaucratic infrastructures that connected musical data to rights. The argument is that copyright and collective management were constitutive of distinctive business activities that triggered what came to be defined as the "music industry". Our suggestion is that music copyright in Britain was anchored in practices and strategies developed by this emerging collective subject built around copyright, which, in turn, shaped the ways in which the industry imagined itself. Introduction 1 More than two decades ago, Helen Wallace highlighted the differences between book and music publishing. "Unlike book publishing", she said, "the physical sale of the music itself is not the core business; the central asset is the copyright which, again unlike book publishing, rests with the publisher". 2 Such a commercially significant difference left distinctive marks in music copyright throughout the 20th century, and was particularly evident in the constitution of the Performing Right Society (PRS). As is well documented in standard histories of copyright, the music publisher William Boosey (1864-1933) from Chappell & Co, was behind the move that established the collecting society. Although the history of the society is often told as a success story, the first decades of the society were highly controversial, full of conflicts and hesitations over its methods of operation and constitution. Even for closely related music publishers, the society was not the only (or the best) way to conduct business. For instance, his cousin's company, Boosey & Co, was initially reluctant to participate in the new society. 3 Likewise, Novello & Co did not join until 1936, two decades after its birth. 4 This essay traces the initial struggles of the collective to explore how music copyright was constituted in the 20th century and how it handled the transition from recognition to distribution, from rights to royalties, in a context of rapidly changing technologies. In so *232 doing, it follows initial controversies around the ways in which specific tariffs affected musical labour to argue that copyright and collective management were constitutive of distinctive business activities that triggered what came to be defined as the "music industry". More specifically, our suggestion is that music copyright in Britain was anchored in practices and strategies developed by this emerging collective subject built around copyright, which, in turn, shaped the ways in which the industry imagined itself.

The essay explores some recent controversies in British music copyright through the evolving tech... more The essay explores some recent controversies in British music copyright through the evolving technologies used to perform or play music in the courtroom. Whilst the conceptual tension between cases has caused doctrinal anxiety about the effect of popular music in copyright, the essay contends that the recent stream of music copyright cases can be considered from a historical perspective, taking into account the tools, materials and experts as they featured in court. In doing so, the essay connects a history of legal expertise to the emergence of new technologies whilst arguing that legal knowledge about music copyright was, in fact, stabilized in the courtroom.

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Trade marks have been understood as quintessential 'bureaucratic properties'. This article sugges... more Trade marks have been understood as quintessential 'bureaucratic properties'. This article suggests that the making of trade marks has been historically influenced by bureaucratic practices of search and classification, which in turn were affected by the possibilities and limits of spatial organisation and technological means of access and storage. It shows how the organisation of access and retrieval did not only condition the possibility of conceiving new trade marks, but also served to delineate their intangible proprietary boundaries. Thereby they framed the very meaning of a trade mark. By advancing a historical analysis that is sensitive to shifts, both in actual materiality and in the administrative routines of trade mark law, the article highlights the legal form of trade mark as inherently social and materially shaped. We propose a historical understanding of trade mark law that regards legal practice and bureaucratic routines as being co-constitutive of the very legal object itself. 198. For an initial attempt to 'chart how bureaucratic culture affects the operation of the trade mark system', see Burrell , pp 95-131. 3 On the importance of registry for the functioning of law and law's constitutive relationship to media technology, see Vismann (2008), pp 79-85. GRIFFITH LAW REVIEW, 2016 http://dx.

The practice of watching trade mark applications silently emerged alongside the history of trade ... more The practice of watching trade mark applications silently emerged alongside the history of trade mark law in the 20th century as an odd but crucial paralegal activity. This article traces that distinctive, if often overlooked, emergence and the controversies that initially surrounded its professional status and legitimacy. After looking at the different ways in which watching practices successfully overcame suspicion and criticism, the article explores the strategic role of watchers as mediators and facilitators of knowledge against jurisdictional challenges, and shows how their notifications fuelled corporate aspirations beyond national (trade mark) offices. In doing so, the article examines the impact of computerisation, not only on watching trade marks but also on the conceptual and material infrastructure of trade mark law. The underlying argument is that the construction of the intangible property afforded by trade marks was not only and exclusively an effect of consumers' projections and identifications. Rather, watching practices also encouraged trade mark owners to speculate on the contours of "intangible" property and its potential viability at home and abroad.

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The essay explores the interactive role of experts in the construction of the intangible object i... more The essay explores the interactive role of experts in the construction of the intangible object in copyright law. It pays special attention to the interventions and eventual connections of a British design consultant and fashion designer, Victor Herbert, in different copyright cases such as the well-known Designers Guild Ltd v. Russell Williams (Textiles) Ltd [2001]. The article traces the background of his early court appearances as an expert witness and the range of visual techniques and experiments he developed to "materialize" the incorporeal in copyright law.

Este trabajo ha sido realizado gracias al apoyo y la colaboración de Ramón Casas, Raquel Xalabard... more Este trabajo ha sido realizado gracias al apoyo y la colaboración de Ramón Casas, Raquel Xalabarder (UOC) y ALADDA dentro del proyecto de investigación Primary Sources of Copyright editado por Lionel Bently y Martin Krestchner que estará disponible en internet en 2012. Quisiera también expresar mi agradecimiento a Jorge Tarlea y a todo el personal de archivo del Consejo de Estado.

In this article, an attempt is made to capture experiences embodied through bilateral copyright r... more In this article, an attempt is made to capture experiences embodied through bilateral copyright relationships between Latin America and Spain . Special attention is devoted to issues bracketed off in traditional historical narratives, such as the always-decisive intervention of a suitable time to act and the techniques by which political relations outside the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Property 1886 were established. In doing so, attempts are made to describe the practices in carrying out negotiations and to follow the simultaneous emergence of problems interwoven in those political practices. The main aim is to try to appreciate abilities to establish contacts and to frame different themes, prioritizing and singularizing issues, furnishing trust and helping to construct horizons in bilateral copyright relations.

which former Beatle, George Harrison, was sued for copyright infringement seems to confirm this p... more which former Beatle, George Harrison, was sued for copyright infringement seems to confirm this premise. 3 Money appears to have been the main trigger for the dispute. Gold discs, celebrity stardom, catchy songs and musical similarities constituted the common elements that brought this and many other controversies over musical properties into the courts. In this specific instance, the judge ruled that Harrison had subconsciously copied the plaintiff's composition. From a legal perspective, it is the resonance of this judgment that is remarkable. It is often mentioned in textbooks, conferences and scholarly articles. 4 Although some domestic courts have pointedly declined to follow the decision as it came from another jurisdiction, this has not stopped lawyers and legal scholars from repeatedly referencing it. 5 One reason for this insistence is that the case exemplifies an infringement arising from an unintentional act of borrowing. 6 At first glance, this type of borrowing appears paradoxical, but it serves to highlight that pop music is a genre especially inhabited by the unconscious. 7 In fact, the judge himself committed a Freudian slip after his judgment, referring to the two songs as if they were distinct. 8 Although the decision remains a frequent trope in copyright 2

a sense much of the history of intellectual property can be seen as one of the law attempting to ... more a sense much of the history of intellectual property can be seen as one of the law attempting to contain and restrict the intangible-to capture the phantom. '

interdisciplinary scholarship, and her arguments on the foundational nexus of race, criminality, ... more interdisciplinary scholarship, and her arguments on the foundational nexus of race, criminality, and citizenship offer scholars of English and history much to consider. In the Shadow of the Gallows, with DeLombard's deft analysis of early American literature, persuasively pushes back the plantation-to-prison narrative to the very founding of the nation, and demonstrates the importance of criminality in the development of early black subjectivity.

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This project, which runs from 1st January 2014 for two years, is also part of the AHRC Copyright ... more This project, which runs from 1st January 2014 for two years, is also part of the AHRC Copyright Satellites scheme. The research focuses on the ways in which the music publishing industry has adapted to successive technological and institutional changes, especially to copyright law, by adopting different legal, economic, infrastructural and marketing strategies. The project will analyse the historical and economic factors that explain the adaptability of this sector and the extent to which they can be used in order to understand the future of creative industries in the digital age.

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This lecture traces the rise of merchandising as a distinct and independent commercial and legal ... more This lecture traces the rise of merchandising as a distinct and independent commercial and legal practice in the United Kingdom. While intellectual property textbooks often discuss merchandising activities, their focus is primarily on specific cases and legislative developments in the distinct branches of intellectual property, mainly copyright, passing off and trade mark law. What is less often stressed there is the historicity of the practice as such and the changing conditions for its emergence. The lecture discusses the specific relation between law and marketing that arose with the earliest days of television. The arrival of commercial television facilitated and stabilised some contractual practices between commercial agencies and sectors such as the toy, publishing and food industries, eager to capitalise on the new medium. In conclusion, the lecture reflects on what this trade shared (or not) with character merchandising of the early days of the film industry, to provide a deeper historical understanding of a twentieth century intellectual property phenomenon.

Although the elusive character of intellectual property's subject matter might have been a produc... more Although the elusive character of intellectual property's subject matter might have been a productive dilemma for the development of legal doctrine, the specific mutability of this form of property has also made it into a particularly contested and sensitive area where different arguments about its legitimations collide. It is in this sense that intellectual property has been a canvas on which identities have been contested; economic and intellectual capital created and accumulated; as well as knowledges and identities wilfully delineated, transformed and managed as 'assets.' Intellectual property regimes do not only commoditise knowledge but also transform the very processes by which it is generated, understood and valued. The workshop brings together scholars from law, science studies, anthropology, philosophy and sociology to explore many questions concerning the role of intellectual property as a specific mode of governance of intangible knowledge at this present moment of time. Beyond understanding intellectual property as legal techniques of appropriation, the workshop will explore intellectual property and its broader contemporary political, social and cultural meanings: its relation to economic rationality; as a specific mode of governance of different epistemes; and as concrete practices of industrialisation and valorisation. Contact and details: j.a.bellido@kent.ac.uk or h.y.kang@kent.ac.uk

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The western conceptualisation of property remains tied to the image of land; reinforcing, we sugg... more The western conceptualisation of property remains tied to the image of land; reinforcing, we suggest, a range of assumptions that are fast becoming questionable, if not irrelevant. Thus, the idea of property continues to be linked, as if by definition, to issues of scarcity, sovereignty, and tangibility. The trope of 'private property', expressed in narratives which privilege exclusive 'ownership' as central to our understanding of what property is, as a system for assigning and distributing value, remains firmly 'in place'. The development of digital goods and services reminds us that, in fact, none of these presumptions can be taken fore-granted: indeed these developments serve to reveal that the apparently necessary (seemingly natural) foundations of property in the land-image are, necessarily, fabricated. However, we should not mistake digital property as being essentially new in this regard: older developments, concerned not only with copyright and intellectual property, but also with community based activities, such as co-operatives and mutuals, have long contested the land-image of property and all it is presumed to carry. This seminar will explore what property can and might be, once the land-image has been dispensed with as the 'proper' (only) grounding for 'thinking' (conceptualising) property. In doing so, it challenges 'property theory' by beginning with two sets of practices which we have associated with 'alternative property practices'using them to explore the fabrication of property relations through the framing of 'practices', rather than the attribution of conceptual framings located in and through the land-image of property relations. Bringing together scholars experienced in the practices of alternative properties, along with theoretical researchers who draw on resources outside of the orthodox property theory framework, will allow us to examine the evidence that we need another approach for property thinking, as well as to explore the methods and concepts which may help us in developing an alternative approach: one which directly engages with, recognises and uses, the implications of 'alternative property

Emily's academic career began in social policy (B.A. Goldsmiths College, University of London) be... more Emily's academic career began in social policy (B.A. Goldsmiths College, University of London) before later specialising in criminology (MSc Edinburgh University; PhD Keele University). In 1999 she started work as a research assistant exploring young men's participation in general practice healthcare at the University of Edinburgh. She later moved to the University of Oxford to join a large team of researchers investigating the effect of intensive community supervision on persistent and serious young offenders in England and Wales. It was this subject that eventually became the focus of her doctoral thesis, which sought to identify the long-term impact (ten years on) of the respective disposal with the same cohort of young people as they entered adulthood. The study combined macro-level longitudinal statistical analyses of a national data-set with micro-level biographical interviews with a discrete regional sample. It was intended to represent a departure from the original evaluation, although its inception was directly informed by the marked limitations of conducting high-profile, short-term public policy research. In between her research on youth crime and justice, she has worked on an ESRC study inspecting the methodological and theoretical particularities of research on the fear of crime. In 2013, she joined us here at the School of Law at the University of Sheffield on a further ESRC study that will explore the legacy of Thatcherism and neo-conservative social policies on crime. Learn more about the project here:

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Programme  9h15 -Accueil des participants  9h30 -Introduction, Léonard Laborie, Céline Paillett... more Programme  9h15 -Accueil des participants  9h30 -Introduction, Léonard Laborie, Céline Paillette I. La « diplomatie technique » vue par les diplomates Président : Renaud Meltz, maître de conférence à l'Université de la Polynésie française, en délégation CNRS.  10h-10h20 -Yves Bruley (Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques), Le Quai d'Orsay et la « diplomatie technique » sous le Second Empire Questions  10h30-10h50 -Jose Bellido (Birkbeck College, University of London), La diplomatie de la propriété intellectuelle Questions  11h -Café  11h15-11h35 -Léonard Laborie (CNRS, UMR Irice), L'entrée des organisations internationales au quai d'Orsay Questions  11h45 -Commentaires : Laurence Badel (Université Paris 1, UMR Irice)  12h05 -Discussion  12h30 -Déjeuner II-La « diplomatie technique » vue par les experts Président : David Burigana (Università degli Studi di Padova)

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This conference addressed the transformations through digital technologies, of discourses and pra... more This conference addressed the transformations through digital technologies, of discourses and practices of musical propertization around the world, offering ethnographic methods as a fruitful mode of research inquiry. Centred on theoretical and conceptual ideas arising from fieldwork conducted by the researchers of the Music and Digitisation programme, it aimed to generate dialogue between scholars working on the subject from a range of disciplines-anthropology, ethnomusicology, musicology, intellectual property law and legal theory. The day opened with an introductory note about the programme by Georgina Born, followed by presentations from three guests. The core of the conference comprised five ethnographic presentations of work in progress from programme members, each with responses from two selected guests. The papers shared an 'ontological' perspective in examining how the transposability of sound and data in the digital age is fostering new controversies over the nature of the music as art, commodity and heritage. Two guest respondents led the closing discussion at the end of the day. The event was held at the Ertegun House in Oxford.

Journal of Media Law, 2014

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, 2009

In this article, an attempt is made to capture experiences embodied through bilateral copyright r... more In this article, an attempt is made to capture experiences embodied through bilateral copyright relationships between Latin America and Spain (1884–1904). Special attention is devoted to issues bracketed off in traditional historical narratives, such as the always-decisive ...

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Trade marks have been understood as quintessential ‘bureaucratic properties’. This article sugges... more Trade marks have been understood as quintessential ‘bureaucratic properties’. This article suggests that the making of trade marks has been historically influenced by bureaucratic practices of search and classification, which in turn were affected by the possibilities and limits of spatial organisation and technological means of access and storage. It shows how the organisation of access and retrieval did not only condition the possibility of conceiving new trade marks, but also served to delineate their intangible proprietary boundaries. Thereby they framed the very meaning of a trade mark. By advancing a historical analysis that is sensitive to shifts, both in actual materiality and in the administrative routines of trade mark law, the article highlights the legal form of trade mark as inherently social and materially shaped. We propose a historical understanding of trade mark law that regards legal practice and bureaucratic routines as being co-constitutive of the very legal object itself.