An alternative to incentive-based IP theory centers on cultural flourishing

Evidence

Sunder’s monograph reframes IP from a utilitarian-incentive framework into a substantive theory of cultural flourishing. The book engages traditional knowledge, geographical indications, and the cultural-development dimensions of IP at a depth that has shaped subsequent critical scholarship. … Sunder’s framework remains the most developed contemporary alternative to incentive-based IP theory. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2186

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Names the main contemporary alternative framework that critical IP scholarship positions itself around.
  • XREF: connects to: International IP harmonization created a new knowledge feudalism — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2192; Economic-reductionist cultural theory stays trapped at an epochal level of abstraction; Social reproduction theory enables analysis of family and unproductive labor beyond economic reduction

Broader Connections