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We've grown into a community about quilting, crafting, entrepreneurship and intellectual property.​
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Jessica Silbey
Interviewed by Elizabeth Townsend Gard
Date March 2018
Jessica is a IP professor, and also has written a book the Eureka Myth.
She is also writing Just Photographers: how they are different. Photographers in the digital space.
And she is writing a book "Against Progress" - core concerns like dignity, distributive justice, privacy, etc.
Topics
Interviews for the book and snowball sampling
transcribed and coded the data
myth of inventor hero
the process of the book
Beginnings of creativity
hobby versus professional
role of IP in artists' work
role of IP lawyers
Distribution: 5 categories of sharing
how you chose who you interviewed
borrowing
how did you put them all together?
the importance of space
labor
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Patterns and rights statements
Fabric
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