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13.11.2024
Semiotic, critical, and comparative approaches to (industrial) property rights
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Le 13 novembre 2024 de 14:45 à 16:45
Sciences Po - 13 rue de l'Université
Law and Methods Seminar
Guest Speaker: Professor Camilla Crea.
If it is true that we purchase through symbols, it is equally true that we live through them.
Signs, especially verbal and visual ones, are ‘fictitious commodities’, subject to trademark rights, and essential to commerce and consumer markets. However, signs are also semiotic entities that belong to language and to social, political, and artistic communication. The expressive value of signs pertains to society, art, culture, and citizens—not to the market—and must remain inappropriable.
Thus, intellectual property rights should not disproportionately impinge upon freedom of expression, a fundamental pillar of any democratic society. What legal strategies exist to safeguard the collective and social value of signs and mitigate the risks of a chilling effect? This question will be addressed using a mixed methodology that combines semiotic analysis with a critical, legal, and comparative approach.
Venue: Room 410T (Sciences Po, 13 rue de l'Université, 4th floor, 75007 Paris).
Invite-only event.