Document Type
Book Chapter
Book Authors/Editors
Meg Leta Jones & Amanda Levendowski
Publisher
University of California Press
Publication Date
2024
Abstract
This chapter uses the case studies of Russia and China to show how US intellectual property rights talk around economic espionage, trade secrets, and cybercrime prosecution entrenches global racial and gender hierarchies. Part I outlines how Critical Race Intellectual Property (CRTIP) and Third World Liberation Studies (TWLS) are useful theoretical lenses for understanding racial and gender dynamics in international intellectual property law. Part II examines how China is racially represented and geopolitically managed in conversations about cybercrime and espionage in the larger context of histories and formations of Asianness. Part III considers how Russia is racially represented and geopolitically managed in conversations about hacking and disinformation in the larger context of the histories and formations of whiteness. The conclusion posits that drawing upon feminist cyberlaw’s articulations of ethics and fairness can help build equitable global racial orders of intellectual property that divest from whiteness.
Recommended Citation
Anjali Vats,
Chinese and Russian Cybercrime in Global Racial Orders of Intellectual Property,
Feminist Cyberlaw
76
(2024).
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https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/fac_book-chapters/56
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