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/9780816670024.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, Intellectual Property, IT, and Media Law
This chapter discusses the authorship and ownership practices of Asante cloth makers that the intellectual property law opposed. Asante’s design of adinkra and kente became their ownership claims. ...
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This chapter discusses the authorship and ownership practices of Asante cloth makers that the intellectual property law opposed. Asante’s design of adinkra and kente became their ownership claims. These claims encompass cloth production as a whole; therefore, distinguishing it from claims over individual designs, which is an intellectual property right. The chapter also explains the generational teaching of producing these fabrics. Those with strongest access in learning to produce these fabrics are cloth makers’ immediate family members who are familiar with the cloth production process.Less
This chapter discusses the authorship and ownership practices of Asante cloth makers that the intellectual property law opposed. Asante’s design of adinkra and kente became their ownership claims. These claims encompass cloth production as a whole; therefore, distinguishing it from claims over individual designs, which is an intellectual property right. The chapter also explains the generational teaching of producing these fabrics. Those with strongest access in learning to produce these fabrics are cloth makers’ immediate family members who are familiar with the cloth production process.
Zina Weygand
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804757683
- eISBN:
- 9780804772389
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804757683.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate representations. This anthropological and cultural history introduces us to both real and imaginary ...
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The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate representations. This anthropological and cultural history introduces us to both real and imaginary figures from the past, uncovering French attitudes towards the blind from the Middle Ages through the first half of the nineteenth century. Much of the book, however, centers on the eighteenth century, the enlightened age of Diderot's emblematic blind man and of the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, founded by Valentin Haüy, the great benefactor of blind people. The book paints a picture of the blind admitted to the institutions created for them and of the conditions under which they lived, from the officially sanctioned beggars of the medieval Quinze–Vingts to the cloth makers of the Institute for Blind Workers. It has also uncovered their fictional counterparts in an array of poems, plays, and novels. The book concludes with Braille, whose invention of writing with raised dots gave blind people around the world definitive access to silent reading and to written communication.Less
The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate representations. This anthropological and cultural history introduces us to both real and imaginary figures from the past, uncovering French attitudes towards the blind from the Middle Ages through the first half of the nineteenth century. Much of the book, however, centers on the eighteenth century, the enlightened age of Diderot's emblematic blind man and of the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, founded by Valentin Haüy, the great benefactor of blind people. The book paints a picture of the blind admitted to the institutions created for them and of the conditions under which they lived, from the officially sanctioned beggars of the medieval Quinze–Vingts to the cloth makers of the Institute for Blind Workers. It has also uncovered their fictional counterparts in an array of poems, plays, and novels. The book concludes with Braille, whose invention of writing with raised dots gave blind people around the world definitive access to silent reading and to written communication.
