Don't Be a Drag, Just Be a Queen – How Drag Queens Protect Their Intellectual Property Without Law

Eden Sarid
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The paper is an empirical study of the way drag queens protect their intellectual property without reverting to formal intellectual property law. It identifies that substituting for the law is a double-layered social norm system devised by the queens in which the creators (the queens) as well as the users of the domain influence its norms and enforcement. The paper outlines the incentives that queens have for creating drag; the unique social structure and the distinctive subject matter of the domain; and the special relationships that the queens have with their audience. It holds, that this structure allows for the creation of a well tailored and functioning social norms system. The paper delineates the reasons why intellectual property law cannot accommodate for the queen's creations; and it presents the norm system the queens developed in order to prevent appropriation. The paper outlines the advantages of the social norms system – a structured, better tailored and flexible ordering regime; as well as possible disadvantages such as lack of IP policy and concerns regarding powerful guilds blocking creativity. The paper also addresses the idea of a creative domain that wishes to challenge law, rather than become a part of it. The paper concludes that the drag domain holds important lessons for the general intellectual property discourse.
不要变装,要做变装皇后——变装皇后如何在没有法律的情况下保护自己的知识产权
本文对变装皇后在不诉诸正式知识产权法的情况下保护自己知识产权的方式进行了实证研究。它指出,取代法律的是一个由女王设计的双层社会规范体系,其中创造者(女王)和领域的用户影响其规范和执行。这篇论文概述了女王制造阻力的动机;独特的社会结构和独特的领域主题;以及女王与观众之间的特殊关系。它认为,这种结构允许创建一个精心定制和运作良好的社会规范系统。文章阐述了知识产权法无法适应女王创作的原因;并介绍了女王为防止挪用而制定的规范体系。本文概述了社会规范体系的优势——一个结构化的、更有针对性的、灵活的秩序制度;以及可能存在的缺点,如缺乏IP政策和担心强大的公会阻碍创造力。这篇论文还提出了一个创意领域的想法,即希望挑战法律,而不是成为法律的一部分。本文的结论是,拖拽领域对一般知识产权话语具有重要的借鉴意义。
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