The Idea of Authorship in Copyright

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - Philosophy - 270 pages
The author argues for a public property right in copyrighted entities. He emphasises the sociality of copyright creation and the role and contribution of the public to the creation of every copyright work.
 

Contents

Against Sole Authorship
1
A Conceptual Challenge
27
A Bundle of Rights
43
4
55
Authorship and the Limits of Original Appropriation
73
Incidents of Authorship and Continuity
109
Subjects of Copyright and Social Construction
123
6
139
The Public as a Joint Author
187
A Blueprint for Just Copyright
227
Bibliography
233
Index
261
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Lior Zemer is a lecturer in law at the Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Centre, Herzliya, Israel, and a Visiting Professor at Boston University School of Law.

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