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Authors, Users, and Pirates

Copyright Law and Subjectivity

Authors, Users, and Pirates
Authors, Users, and Pirates
Authors, Users, and Pirates
  • Forfatter: James (Lecturer University of Technology Sydney) Meese
  • Format: Innbundet
  • Antall sider: 240
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: Authors, Users, and Pirates
  • EAN: 9780262037440
  • Utgivelsesår: 2018
  • Bidragsyter: Meese, James (Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney)
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An examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational framework.

In current debates over copyright law, the author, the user, and the pirate are almost always invoked. Some in the creative industries call for more legal protection for authors; activists and academics promote user rights and user-generated content; and online pirates openly challenge the strict enforcement of copyright law. In this book, James Meese offers a new way to think about these three central subjects of copyright law, proposing a relational framework that encompasses all three. Meese views authors, users, and pirates as interconnected subjects, analyzing them as a relational triad. He argues that addressing the relationships among the three subjects will shed light on how the key conceptual underpinnings of copyright law are justified in practice.

Meese presents a series of historical and contemporary examples, from nineteenth-century cases of