The idea of authorship in copyright / Lior Zemer.

Aldershot, Hampshire : Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007.

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Authorship -- Copyright.

Authorship -- Philosophy.

Copyright -- Philosophy.

1. Introduction --2. Conceptualising copyright --3. What copyright is --4. Authorial collectivity --5. Subjects of copyright and social construction --6. Lockean copyright re-imagined --7. Doctrinal payoffs: the public as joint author --8. Conclusions: a blueprint for just copyright.

This work presents a collectivist model of intellectual property rights. The core argument is that since copyright works enjoy profit from significant public contribution, they should not be privately owned, but considered to be a joint enterprise, made real by both the public and author.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-259) and index.

9780754623762

0754623769

xiv, 270 p. ; 24 cm