Boatema Boateng
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816670024
- eISBN:
- 9781452946863
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816670024.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Intellectual Property, IT, and Media Law
This introductory chapter addresses the ownership and intellectual property protection of adinkra and kente fabrics. It asks: what are the opposing principles of authorship and alienability in the ...
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This introductory chapter addresses the ownership and intellectual property protection of adinkra and kente fabrics. It asks: what are the opposing principles of authorship and alienability in the production of these fabrics? What are the legal implications when these conflicting principles meet? What appropriation practices are found around adinkra and kente, and what are their implications in Ghana’s copyright protections of folklore? Adinkra and kente are among arts that became an important part of Asante culture from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries, specifically for the social and economic significance of cloth in Ghana.Less
This introductory chapter addresses the ownership and intellectual property protection of adinkra and kente fabrics. It asks: what are the opposing principles of authorship and alienability in the production of these fabrics? What are the legal implications when these conflicting principles meet? What appropriation practices are found around adinkra and kente, and what are their implications in Ghana’s copyright protections of folklore? Adinkra and kente are among arts that became an important part of Asante culture from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries, specifically for the social and economic significance of cloth in Ghana.
