| Description |
1 online resource (503 pages) |
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Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law, 13 |
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Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law, 13
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| Contents |
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; 3 Language, practice, and history; Part III Comparative Law; 4 The metamorphosis of contrefaçon in French copyright law; 5 A common lawyer's perspective on contrefaçon; Part IV Economics; 6 Copyright infringement, 'free-riding' and the lifeworld |
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7 Copyright and the limits of law-and-economics analysisPart V Linguistics; 8 'Substantial similarity of expression' in copyright infringement actions: a linguistic perspective; 9 Refining notions of idea and expression through linguistic analysis; Part VI Computer software; 10 Copyright, piracy and software; 11 Of plots, puddings and draught-excluders: the law as it applies to the infringement of computer programs; Part VII Information studies; 12 Measuring text reuse in the news industry; 13 Reflections on measuring text reuse from a copyright law perspective; Part VIII Literature |
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14 Unoriginal genius: plagiarism and the construction of 'Romantic' authorship15 The genius and the labourer: authorship in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century copyright law; Part IX Art; 16 Piracy and authorship in contemporary art and the artistic commonwealth; 17 Copyright's imperfect republic and the artistic commonwealth; Part X Sociology/music; 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; Part XI Criminology |
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20 Copyright infringement: a criminological perspective21 Towards a clearer understanding of the file-sharing phenomenon? Comments on a criminological perspective; Bibliography; Discography; Index |
| Summary |
An inquiry into copyright infringement, from perspectives including law, literature, history, economics, music, and modern art |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Piracy (Copyright)
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Piracy (Copyright)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davis, Jennifer
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Ginsburg, Jane C
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| ISBN |
9780511916625 |
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0511916620 |
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