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Hagley Museum
and Library Presents a Symposium on Intellectual Property
Wilmington,
Delaware – May 2013 – Hagley Museum and
Library presents Catherine Fisk, Chancellor’s Professor of Law in the School of Law at
University of California-Irvine, and Paul Duguid, School of Information at the
University of California-Berkley, at its spring symposium on Historicizing
Intellectual Property. On May 16,
these speakers will discuss the complicated history behind
the creation of intellectual property. The symposium begins at 3 p.m. in the
Copeland Room at Hagley Library. This
program is free and open to the public. Reservations are required: clockman@Hagley.org
or 302-658-2400, ext. 243. Use Hagley’s Buck Road entrance off Route 100.
“Intellectual property is one of
the most controversial and complex arenas of contemporary litigation and
legislation,” says Dr. Roger Horowitz, Director, Center for the History of
Business, Technology, and Society at Hagley. “By turning ideas
and creative products into property that can be bought and sold -- and serve as
a source for profits -- intellectual property has become ever more important in
our information economy.”
Catherine Fisk: “Authors Anonymous”
Dr. Fisk will contrast the norms
of attribution in twentieth-century advertising with that of motion picture and
television writing. Writers in Hollywood, through their union, the Writers Guild
of America, created the screen credit system that regulated compensation and
gave writers public recognition for their activities. In advertising, by
contrast, there was no union and as a result no formal system of attribution.
Paul Duguid: “Brands in Chains”
Dr. Duguid will challenge the general assumption
that wars between companies’ brands (such as Pepsi vs. Coke, or Apple vs.
Samsung) only take place between these competing firms. Drawing on historical
evidence, his presentation argues these conflicts also play out along the
supply chains used to create particular branded products.
Commentary
following the talks will be given by Philip Scranton,
Rutgers University, and
David Suisman,
University of Delaware.
About the
Library
Hagley Library
is the nation’s leading business history library, archives, and research
center. Current holdings comprise 37,000 linear feet in the Manuscripts and
Archives Department, 290,000 printed volumes in the Imprints Department, 2
million visual items in the Pictorial Department, and more than 300,000 digital
images and pages in the Digital Archives Department. Hagley’s Center for the History of Business,
Technology, and Society organizes conferences, research seminars, and a public
lecture series; it also operates a research grants-in-aid program.
Hagley Museum and Library
At
Hagley, we invite people of all ages to investigate and experience the
unfolding history of American business, technology, and innovation, and its
impact on the world, from our home at the historic DuPont powder yards on the
banks of the Brandywine.
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