Creativity and its discontents: China's creative industries and intellectual property rights offenses

Abstract

Interdisciplinarity has become a transforming force in legal studies, and its advantages have been well canvassed. How might cultural studies be useful to law? One often equates cultural studies with the theory and politics of ideology, identity, and difference, and with the 3D’s of deconstruction, demythologization, and demystification (Rojek, 2007, pp. 27–28), but new discursive opportunities often present themselves when cultural studies moves ‘towards a model of articulation as “transformative practice”’ (Grossberg, 1996, p. 88).