Intellectual property regimes operate through shame and reputation as much as statute.

Evidence

Illuminates IP/Equity: Graeber’s anthropological history of debt is the indispensable cross-pollination text for IP scholarship. By framing all economic exchange as embedded in moral obligation, Graeber illuminates how IP regimes work as much through shame and reputation as through statute. Placed beside Lessig and Hyde, Debt offers what legal scholarship cannot: a cross-cultural, longue-durée account of what owing and owning have actually meant. The book’s anti-monetary genealogy is also a primer for thinking about value extraction in platform economies. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 3370

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Lessig, Hyde, and the broader IP scholarship; the shame and reputation mechanism parallels how IP enforcement actually plays out. — connects to: Arbitration judgments are enforced through public shaming and cross-bourse reciprocity. — Lisa Bernestein, Opting out of the Legal System, 93; Private legal systems can rival state law when reputation functions as enforcement. — Lisa Bernestein, Opting out of the Legal System, 16
• QUESTION: If IP works through shame and reputation, how do anonymized infringement platforms change that enforcement lever?