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Anthropology is always having an identity crisis.It's like having an intellectual poaching license.-CliffordGeertz, qtd. in Winkler, "An Anthropologist of Influence"![My] purpose ... is to make explicit the systems of operational combination ... which also compose a "culture," and to bring to light the models of action characteristic of users whose status as the dominated element in society ... is concealed by the euphemistic term "consumers."Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.-MichelDe Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life 2Clint Eastwood doesn't want the tabloids to write about him.Rudolf Valentino's heirs want to control his film biography.The Girl Scouts don't want their image soiled by association with certain activities.George Lucas wants to keep Strategic Defense Initiative fans from calling it "Star Wars."Pepsico doesn't want singers to use the word "Pepsi" in their songs.Guy Lombardo wants an exclusive property right to ads that show big bands playing on New Year's Eve.Uri Geller thinks he should be paid for ads showing psychics bending metal through telekinesis.Paul Prudhomme, that household name, thinks the same about ads featuring corpulent bearded chefs.And scads of copyright holders see purple when their creations are made fun of.Something very dangerous is going on here.-JudgeKozinski, White v. Samsung Electronics"The law seeks to eliminate ambiguity.-EdmundLeach, Custom, Law and Ter- rorist Violence 4 I'm on my way to the university to teach my class in intellectual property.I decide to walk down Queen Street, into that ever-so-self-consciously hip strip officially (and painfully) known as "The Fashion District" which runs west from the downtown core in Toronto.Parallel to King and Dundas Streets, crosscut by Dufferin, Bathurst, and Simcoe, Queen Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.