Copyright and Piracy: An Interdisciplinary Critique

by Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davis, Jane C. Ginsburg

Overview

Copyright has been the subject of interdisciplinary inquiry, but generally from the perspective of ‘authorship'. This volume takes a different tack, examining the concept of infringement and its cousins, imitation and inspiration, from a variety of approaches. Rather than proposing a litany of discrete chapters each independently covering a different discipline, the Editors have planned each chapter to pair lawyers' and non lawyers' perspectives, so that each commentator addresses and critiques his or her counterpart's analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521193436
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/28/2010
Series:	Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law , #13
Pages:	502
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Lionel Bently is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, and Professorial Fellow at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.

Jennifer Davis is Herchel Smith College Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law and a member of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge. She is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Jane Ginsburg is Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law and Director of the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at the Columbia University School of Law. She is also an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Notes on the contributors viii

Editors' preface xvii

Table of cases xx

Table of statutes xxv

Part I Introduction 1

1 Inspiration or infringement: the plagiarist in court Isabella Alexander 3

Part II History 17

2 Nineteenth-century Anglo-US copyright relations: the language of piracy versus the moral high ground Catherine Seville 19

3 Language, practice, and history Adrian Johns 44

Part III Comparative law 53

4 The metamorphosis of contrefaçon in French copyright law David Lefranc 55

5 A common lawyer's perspective on contrefaçon Jane C. Ginsburg 80

Part IV Economics 91

6 Copyright infringement, 'free-riding' and the lifeworld Anne Barron 93

7 Copyright and the limits of law-and-economics analysis Jonathan Aldred 128

Part V Linguistics 145

8 'Substantial similarity of expression' in copyright infringement actions: a linguistic perspective Alan Durant 147

9 Refining notions of idea and expression through linguistic analysis Graeme B. Dinwoodie 194

Part VI Computer software 207

10 Copyright, piracy and software Jon Crowcroft 209

11 Of plots, puddings and draught-excluders: the law as it applies to the infringement of computer programs Jennifer Davis 230

Part VII Information studies 245

12 Measuring text reuse in the news industry Paul Clough 247

13 Reflections on measuring text reuse from a copyright law perspective Tanya Aplin 260

Part VIII Literature 269

14 Unoriginal genius: plagiarism and the construction of 'Romantic' authorship Neck Groom 271

15 The genius and the labourer: authorship in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century copyright law Isabella Alexander 300

Part IX Art 309

16 Piracy and authorship in contemporary art and the artistic commonwealth Daniel McClean 311

17 Copyright's imperfect republic and the artistic commonwealth Jonathan Griffiths 340

Part X Sociology/music 355

18 Reggae open source: how the absence of copyright enabled the emergence of popular music in Jamaica Jason Toynbee 357

19 'Free-riding on the riddim'? Open source, copyright law and reggae music in Jamaica Johnson Okpaluba 374

Part XI Criminology 387

20 Copyright infringement: a criminological perspective Loraine Gelsthorpe 389

21 Towards a clearer understanding of the file-sharing phenomenon? Comments on a criminological perspective Shira Perlmutter 410

Bibliography 421

Index 449