Digital Media and the Informational Politics of Appropriation

Digital Media and the Informational Politics of Appropriation

In this essay, David M. Meurer and Rosemary J. Coombe argue that the capacities of digital media to capture, transmit, and enable derivative uses of cultural expressions problematize distinctions between tangible and intangible goods, materiality and immateriality, and the logic of intellectual property regimes.

From Lifting: Theft in Art. Ed. Atopia Projects. Aberdeen, UK: Peacock Visual Arts, 2009.

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