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Rosemary J. Coombe is a Canadian anthropologist and lawyer, She is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies. Previously, she was a full professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.

Education

Coombe earned her J.S.D. from Stanford University.

Career

She was a faculty member at the University of Toronto (UofT) for 12 years before accepting a position at York University in 2001 as their Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies. Before leaving UofT, she published "The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation and the Law" through the Duke University Press. Three years later, she accepted an Ida Beam Visiting Professorship from the University of Iowa. Coombe was renewed as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies in 2009.

In 2013, Coombe co-edited "Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online" through the University of Toronto Press. She was again renewed as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in 2016. That year, she was also recognized by York as a Research Leader. Two years later, she was a T. C. Bierne Visiting Fellow at the University of Queensland's TC Beirne School of Law. Coombe is also part of the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage research team.

Selected publications

The following is a list of selected publications:

• Intellectual property: casebook (1988)
• Cultural appropriations: authorship, alterity, and the law (1998)
• Copyright law: course materials (1998)
• Cultural appropriations : intellectual property laws and the cultural politics of postmodernism.' (1994)
• Copyright, neighbouring rights and moral rights (2000)
• Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online (2013)

Rosemary J. Coombe has written about many important elements within the realm of intellectual property law. In her writing, Coombe focuses on the social and cultural implications of intellectual property law and its constraints. Coombe has written many articles addressing these topics. For example, Coombe wrote Objects of Property and Subjects of Politics: Intellectual Property Laws and Democratic Dialogue, 69 Tex. L. Rev. 1853 (1991). This article highlighted the relationship between democratic freedoms, copyright concepts, and the subsequent effects that stifle cultural expression.

References

1. "Rosemary J. Coombe". cyber.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on October 28, 2019. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
2. Irene Calboli; Srividhya Ragavan (May 28, 2015). Diversity in Intellectual Property: Identities, Interests, and Intersections. Cambridge University Press. p. xi. ISBN 9781107065529. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
3. Marovich, Lisa A. (2001). "Rosemary J. Coombe, The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law, Durham: Duke University Press Review". Law and History Review. 19 (1): 223–225. doi:10.2307/744233. JSTOR 744233. S2CID 149834494. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
4. "Ida Beam Visiting Professorships - Past Lecturers". provost.uiowa.edu. Archived from the original on July 2, 2019. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
5. "Canada Research Chairs program awards $1.4 million to York". exchangemagazine.com. September 24, 2009. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
6. Osborne, Heather (2015). "Review Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online. Edited by Rosemary J. Coombe, Darren Wershler, & Martin Zeilinger". Canadian Journal of Communication. 40 (4). doi:10.22230/cjc.2015v40n4a2990. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
7. "York University gains six new and two renewed Canada Research Chairs". yfile.news.yorku.ca. February 9, 2016. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
8. "York University research leaders recognized at annual celebration". yfile.news.yorku.ca. February 28, 2016. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
9. "Visiting Research Fellows". law.uq.edu.au. Archived from the original on October 20, 2018. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
10. "Rosemary J. Coombe". sfu.ca. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
11. "au:Coombe, Rosemary J." worldcat.org. Retrieved October 28, 2019.

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