relation: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/36915/
title: The Football as Intellectual Property Object
creator: Madison, Michael J
description: The histories of technology and culture are filled with innovations that emerged and took root by being shared widely, only to be succeeded by eras of growth framed by intellectual property. The Internet is a modern example. The football, also known as the pelota, ballon, bola, balón, and soccer ball, is another, older, and broader one. The football lies at the core of football. Intersections between the football and intellectual property law are relatively few in number, but the football supplies a focal object through which the great themes of intellectual property have shaped the game: origins; innovation and standardization; and relationships among law and rules, on the one hand, and the organization of society, culture, and the economy, on the other.
publisher: Cambridge University Press
contributor: Op den Kamp, Claudy
contributor: Hunter, Daniel AD
date: 2019
type: Book Section
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by_nc_nd_4
identifier: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/36915/1/madison.football.pdf
identifier:   Madison, Michael J  (2019) The Football as Intellectual Property Object.   In:  A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects.   Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 312-319.  ISBN 110842001X