Who Owns Academic Work?

Corynne McSherry makes a compelling argument about the ways intellectual property debates figure in the university today. Who Owns Academic Work? is at once one of the most important recent books on the contemporary university and one of the most interesting on intellectual property issues as well. –Mark Rose, University of California, Santa BarbaraWho Owns Academic Work? is required reading for anyone interested in the peculiar author-function of academics, and in the ways it both resembles and differs from the protocols of intellectual property law. McSherry's intellectual and empirical skills make this work both thought-provoking and informative. –Mario Biagioli, Harvard UniversityIn the best tradition of cultural studies, McSherry chooses an unfamiliar object of study, approaching it from without rather than from within… What is significantly different here (and stunning) is the thesis that intellectual property has produced a crisis in the research university and that, in turn, the question of scientific research has "troubled" intellectual property principles… At stake is the maintenance of a "community of science" in which trust and exchange of ideas has historically characterized the climate. –Jane Gaines, Duke University









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