central to all aspects of our lives. It matters for the works we create, the brands we identify
and the medicines we consume. But if IP is power, what kind of power is it, and what does it
do? Building on the work of Michel Foucault, Gordon Hull examines different ways of
understanding power in copyright, trademark and patent policy: as law, as promotion of
public welfare, and as promotion of neoliberal privatization. He argues that intellectual …