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Select lectures and conversations from the New York Institute for the Humanities' forty-year archive.
Comedies of 'Fair Use': Lewis Hyde on Owning Art and Ideas
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28 minutes
2 years ago
Comedies of 'Fair Use': Lewis Hyde on Owning Art and Ideas
In April 2006, The Institute held a two day symposium about copyright and intellectual property, titled Comedies of Fair Use. In this session, Lewis Hyde talks about owning art and ideas.
Hyde is a cultural critic and scholar, whose work focuses on the nature of imagination, creativity, and property. He is best known for his books, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, and Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art.
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The Vault
Select lectures and conversations from the New York Institute for the Humanities' forty-year archive.