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The chapter invokes recent advances in the sociology of valuation to contend that the IP/IPR nexus is the mechanism through which creative products are constructed as valuable: that it orders and settles the multiple evaluative principles at play in creative production. The chapter’s pragmatist approach suggests that IP/IPR is constituted by valuations as diverse as knowledge, networks, or legal stratagems and game playing, valuation practices that coexist with other cultural intermediaries in the creative industries. Although only temporary, such valuations are vital in the operation of markets for creative products: the business of creative work is the construction and exploitation of value through IP/IPR. Its core is symbolic production and it is this symbolic worth that is traded in markets for cultural goods. The symbolic valuation of worth is contingent upon the slicing of IP/IPR facets into works of all kinds that can circulate in the market and be valued. |
