Putting Intellectual Property in its Place examines the relationship between creativity and intellectual property law on the premise that, despite concentrated critical attention devoted to IP law from academic, policy and activist quarters, its role as a determinant of creative activity is overstated. The effects of IP rights or law are usually more unpredictable, non-linear, or illusory than is often presumed. Through a series of case studies focusing on nineteenth century journalism, "fake" art, plant hormone research between the wars, online knitting communities, creativity in small cities, and legal practice, the authors discuss the many ways people comprehend the law through information and opinions gathered from friends, strangers, coworkers, and the media. They also show how people choose to share, create, negotiate, and dispute based on what seems fair, just, or necessary, in the context of how their community functions in that moment, while ignoring or reimagining legal mechanisms. In this book authors Murray, Piper, and Robertson define "the everyday life of IP law", constituting an experiment in non-normative legal scholarship, and in building theory from material and located practice.

Canada is at a critical juncture in the evolution of its communications
policy. Will our information and communications technologies continue
in a market-oriented, neoliberal direction, or will they preserve and
strengthen broader democratic values?

"Media Divides" offers a comprehensive democratic audit of
communications law and policy. Using the concept of communications
rights as a framework for analysis in five key domains -- media,
access, the Internet, privacy, and copyright -- leading analysts
reveal that Canada's failure to respond adequately to a host of
pressures and developments has left its citizens with unequal access to
the nation's communications system and the freedom of expression
it promises.

"Media Divides" not only offers the first up-to-date account
of the democratic deficits in Canada's communications policy, it
formulates recommendations -- including the establishment of a
Canadian right to communicate -- for the future.