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

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010

1st edition

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Copyright infringement.

Piracy (Copyright)

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 gorund

3 Language, practice, and history

PART III Comparative law

4 The metamorphosis of contrefacon in French

5 A common lawyer's perspective on contrefacon

PART IV Economics

6 Copyright infringement, 'free-riding' and the lifeworld

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

PART 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 tin 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

PART IX Art

16 Piracy and authorship on 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 reddim? Open source, copyright law and reggae music in Jamacia

PART XI Criminology

20 Copyright infringement: a criminological perspective

21 Towards a clearer understanding of the file-sharing phenomenon? Comments of a criminological perspective.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521193436

xxx, 471 p. ; 24 cm