ABSTRACT
This chapter argues with the "institution" of intellectual property as itself a generalising and myth-making system. International intellectual property standards are harmonised according to Western constructions of industrialised/intellectual progress and activity. The chapter examines the notion of creativity in an industrialised context and, to an extent, the way in which this departs from other concerns creativity in other cultural and social contexts. The creativity complex is a diverse interplay and network of arguably uncertain categories of industry, creators, and users. Paradoxically, to decimate the counter-discourse among the multiplicity of manifest categories is to risk maintaining the institutional legitimacy of "intellectual property". The categories themselves are created by the summarising and generalising principles of intellectual property and, on their own, are somewhat meaningless as descriptions of certain creative industries. The concept of "creativity" presents a critical nexus in the debate and a site for the negotiation of the obligations and responsibilities in knowledge creation and diversity.
