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Copyright and Piracy : An Interdisciplinary Critique.
2010
Details
Title
Copyright and Piracy : An Interdisciplinary Critique.
Item Type
Book
Description
1 online resource (503 pages).
ISBN
9780511914812 electronic book
Summary
An inquiry into copyright infringement, from perspectives including law, literature, history, economics, music, and modern art.
Note
Description based upon print version of record.
An inquiry into copyright infringement, from perspectives including law, literature, history, economics, music, and modern art.
An inquiry into copyright infringement, from perspectives including law, literature, history, economics, music, and modern art.
Formatted Contents Note
Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Notes on the contributors
Editors' preface
Table of cases
Table of statutes
Part I Introduction
1 Inspiration or infringement: the plagiarist in court
Part II History
2 Nineteenth-century Anglo-US copyright relations: the language of piracy versus the moral high ground
American copyright legislation: overview and context
'Piracy' as a synonym for 'infringement'
'Injury' to the British - early claims to the moral high ground
Copyright for foreigners: the position under British law.
America reclaims the initiative
Moral courage
3 Language, practice, and history
Part III Comparative Law
4 The metamorphosis of contrefaçon in French copyright law
The birth of contrefaçon
The publishing paradigm
The royal legislation
The revolutionary legislation
The commentators' approach
The unlawful performance
The extension of contrefaçon
From printing to reproducing
Composers' problematic protection
Impact of technological progress
Connection between reproduction and performance
The victory of contrefaçon
The 1957 Act.
A severing of contrefaçon?
The breaking up of contrefaçon by new media
Life and fate of the compulsory licensing
Life and fate of the 'sliding-scale response'
The global issue of public offence
Life and fate of the HADOPI
The paradoxical choice of criminal law
European law and the 'commercial scale' criteria
Grounds for leniency towards individuals
5 A common lawyer's perspective on contrefaçon
Contrefaçon and the common law
Broadening conceptions of exclusive rights
Pressures toward and resistance to disaggregation
Conclusion
Part IV Economics.
6 Copyright infringement, 'free-riding' and the lifeworld
Introduction
The 'incentives-access' paradigm
The 'absolute protection' paradigm
Two paradigms, one foundation
Beyond Demsetz? Copyright infringement as 'good' free-riding
Conclusion: thinking otherwise about 'free-riding'
7 Copyright and the limits of law-and-economics analysis
Introduction: the law-and-economics of copyright
The incentives-access paradigm
The absolute protection paradigm
The limits of economic analysis
Conclusion: beyond economic analysis?
Part V Linguistics.
8 'Substantial similarity of expression' in copyright infringement actions: a linguistic perspective
Non-literal copying and literary copyright
Linguistics and copyright
Can linguistics offer anything to copyright?
A basic picture: chain and choice
Similarity at different levels
Design
Word choice
Figurative language
Sentence structure
Speech acts and discourse moves
Themes
Genre
Three examples
'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day'
Roger Shuy: fighting over words
Originality in The Da Vinci Code
Ideas and ways of expressing them.
From direct copying, through substantial taking, to use.
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Notes on the contributors
Editors' preface
Table of cases
Table of statutes
Part I Introduction
1 Inspiration or infringement: the plagiarist in court
Part II History
2 Nineteenth-century Anglo-US copyright relations: the language of piracy versus the moral high ground
American copyright legislation: overview and context
'Piracy' as a synonym for 'infringement'
'Injury' to the British - early claims to the moral high ground
Copyright for foreigners: the position under British law.
America reclaims the initiative
Moral courage
3 Language, practice, and history
Part III Comparative Law
4 The metamorphosis of contrefaçon in French copyright law
The birth of contrefaçon
The publishing paradigm
The royal legislation
The revolutionary legislation
The commentators' approach
The unlawful performance
The extension of contrefaçon
From printing to reproducing
Composers' problematic protection
Impact of technological progress
Connection between reproduction and performance
The victory of contrefaçon
The 1957 Act.
A severing of contrefaçon?
The breaking up of contrefaçon by new media
Life and fate of the compulsory licensing
Life and fate of the 'sliding-scale response'
The global issue of public offence
Life and fate of the HADOPI
The paradoxical choice of criminal law
European law and the 'commercial scale' criteria
Grounds for leniency towards individuals
5 A common lawyer's perspective on contrefaçon
Contrefaçon and the common law
Broadening conceptions of exclusive rights
Pressures toward and resistance to disaggregation
Conclusion
Part IV Economics.
6 Copyright infringement, 'free-riding' and the lifeworld
Introduction
The 'incentives-access' paradigm
The 'absolute protection' paradigm
Two paradigms, one foundation
Beyond Demsetz? Copyright infringement as 'good' free-riding
Conclusion: thinking otherwise about 'free-riding'
7 Copyright and the limits of law-and-economics analysis
Introduction: the law-and-economics of copyright
The incentives-access paradigm
The absolute protection paradigm
The limits of economic analysis
Conclusion: beyond economic analysis?
Part V Linguistics.
8 'Substantial similarity of expression' in copyright infringement actions: a linguistic perspective
Non-literal copying and literary copyright
Linguistics and copyright
Can linguistics offer anything to copyright?
A basic picture: chain and choice
Similarity at different levels
Design
Word choice
Figurative language
Sentence structure
Speech acts and discourse moves
Themes
Genre
Three examples
'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day'
Roger Shuy: fighting over words
Originality in The Da Vinci Code
Ideas and ways of expressing them.
From direct copying, through substantial taking, to use.
Series
Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Bently, Lionel Copyright and Piracy : An Interdisciplinary Critique Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2010
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Language
English
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