Eva Hemmungs Wirtén is Professor in Library and Information Science (also Associate Professor [Docent in Swedish] in Comparative Literature) at Uppsala University. Her research is focused on the history, theory and philosophy of intellectual property and the public domain. She is currently developing Culture, Creativity, Copyright (CCC) an international research network based at Uppsala University and working on a new book, preliminarily entitled Libratory Life: Law and the Unmaking of Knowledge, 1976-2006, where she looks at the impact of intellectual property in research and higher education. Eva is a member of the working group on policy in the COST Action A 32 on “Open scholarly communities on the web” and sits on the board of the newly initiated Swedish research observatory on cultural policy SWECULT. Website: http://www.abm.uu.se/evahw
Selected Publications
Terms of Use: Negotiating the Jungle of the Intellectual Commons (forthcoming, University of Toronto Press, September 2008).
No Trespassing: Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization (Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 2004).
“’Don’t Fence Me In’: Travels in the Public Domain ,” New Directions in Copyright Law, vol 6. Ed. Fiona Macmillan. (London: Edward Elgar, 2007).
“The Global Market 1970-2000: Producers,” Blackwell Companion to the History of the Book. Eds. Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose (London: Blackwells, 2007).
“Litteraturens Lag: att forska om upphovsrätt (tvärvetenskapligt).” Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap 3-4, 2006.
“Out of Sight and Out of Mind: On the Cultural Hegemony of Intellectual Property (Critique).” Cultural Studies 2-3, 2006.
“Life, Liberty, and the Relentless Pursuit of Ownership: The ‘Americanization’ of Intellectual Property Rights,” American Studies in Scandinavia, vol 35, no 2, Fall 2003.
Global Infatuation: Explorations in Transnational Publishing and Texts. The Case of Harlequin Enterprises and Sweden (Uppsala: Publications from the Section for Sociology of Literature at the Department of Literature, Uppsala University, 38, 1998).
