Just a quick comment about the readings for today. I found the following passage from Tehranian’s Infringement Nation to be especially significant for my understanding of the aggregates of power and accessibility via copyright laws on the cultural hegemony.
Thus, the contours of our intellectual property regime privilege certain individuals and groups over others and intricately affect notions of belonging, political and social organization, expressive rights, and semiotic structures. In short, copyright laws lie at the heart of “struggles over discursive power—the right to create, and control, cultural meanings.”
[Madhavi Sunder, Intellectual Property and Identity Politics: Playing with Fire, 4 J. GENDER RACE & JUST. 69, 70 (2000).]
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