Copyright and piracy : an interdisciplinary critique / edited by Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davis and Jane C. Ginsburg.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

1st edition

78503

Copyright infringement.

Piracy (Copyright)

1. Inspiration or infringement : the plagiarist in court

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

3. Language, practice, and history

4. The metamorphosis of contrefaçon in French copyright law

5. A common lawyer's perspective on contrefaçon

6. Copyright infringement, free-riding and the lifeworld

7. Copyright and the limits of law-and-economics analysis

8. Substantial similarity of expression' in copyright infringement actions : a linguistic perspective

9. Refining notions of idea and expression through linguistic analysis

10. Copyright, piracy and software

11. Of plots, puddings and draught-excluders : the law as it applies to the Infringement of computer programs

12. Measuring text reuse in the news industry

13. Reflections on measuring text reuse from a copyright law perspective

14. Unoriginal genius : plagiarism and the construction of romantic authorship

15. The genius and the labourer : authorship in eighteenth and nineteenth-century copyright law

16. Piracy and authorship in contemporary art and the artistic commonwealth

17. Copyright's imperfect republic and the artistic commonwealth

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

19. Free-riding on the riddim? : open source, copyright law and reggae music in Jamaica

20. Copyright infringement : a criminological perspective

21. Towards a clearer understanding of the file-sharing phenomenon? : comments on a criminological perspective.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521193436

xxx, 471 p. ; 24 cm