Copyright Law and Derivative Works : Regulating Creativity Hardback
by Omri Rachum-Twaig
Part of the Routledge Research in Intellectual Property series
Hardback
Description
Copyright law regulates creativity. It affects the way people create works of authorship ex-ante and affects the status of works of authorship significantly ex-post.
But does copyright law really understand creativity?
Should legal theories alone inform our regulation of the creative process?This book views copyright law as a law of creativity.
It asks whether copyright law understands authorship as other creativity studies fields do.
It considers whether copyright law should incorporate non-legal theories, and if so, how it should be adjusted in their light.
For this purpose, the book focuses on one of the many rights that copyright law regulates – the right to make a derivative work.
A work is considered derivative when it is based on one or more preexisting works.
Today, the owner of a work of authorship has the exclusive right to make derivative works based on her original work or to allow others to do so.
The book suggests a new way to think about both the right, the tension, and copyright law at large.
It proposes relying on non-legal fields like cognitive psychology and genre theories, and offers new legal-theoretical justifications for the right to make derivative works. As the first book to consider the intersection between copyright law, creativity and derivative works, this will be a valuable resource for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in intellectual property and copyright law.
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- Pages:220 pages, 1 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:06/11/2018
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- ISBN:9781138343276
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:220 pages, 1 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:06/11/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138343276
