Owned, An Ethological Jurisprudence of Property

This book draws upon domestication science to undertake a radical reappraisal of the jurisprudence of property and intellectual property.

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Johanna Gibson is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property at Queen Mary, University of London, where she teaches and researches in intellectual property, creative industries, and animal law and welfare. Gibson is the author of several other Routledge monographs, including, Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health (2017), The Logic of Innovation (2014), Creating Selves (2006), and Community Resource (2005). Along with the humans, she shares her home with four rescue dogs and four rescue cats, all arriving with wildly disjunctive stories.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface: The Hunter and the Farmer and That Dog

Owned, A Dogged Tale of Property

Domestication, the Stone Age

1. Canis Familiaris, the Invention of Domestication

2. The Invention of Imitation

3. Socialisation

Territory, the Space Age

4. Marking Territory

5. Resource Guarding

6. Separation Anxiety

Dominance, the Machine Age

7. Predatory Drift

8. Pack Fiction

9. Wild Abandon

Altruism, the Social Age

10. Shared Interests

11. Resocialisation

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12. Res familiaris

Not the end of it