The Idea of Authorship in Copyright.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Cases -- 1 Introduction -- Against Sole Authorship -- The Landscape of Copyright Theory -- A Road Map -- 2 Conceptualising Copyright -- A Conceptual Challenge -- 'Concept' versus 'Conception' -- Gallie's Ideal of Essential Contestability -- Art, Copyright and the Value of Essential Contestability -- 3 What Copyright Is -- A Bundle of Rights -- Copyright Entitlement Structure -- 4 Authorial Collectivity -- Authorship and the Limits of Original Appropriation -- Authorship and Collective Intentionality -- The Authorial Role of the Public -- Incidents of Authorship and Continuity -- 5 Subjects of Copyright and Social Construction -- The Social Construction of 'Whats' -- Reconstructing the 'Copyright Moment' -- 6 Lockean Copyright Re-Imagined -- Challenging Copyright-Lockeans -- Indisputable Lockean Copyright -- Natural Rights, Labour and Copyright -- Locke and Social Construction -- 7 Doctrinal Payoffs: The Public as a Joint Author -- The Question Posed -- Public and Author as Joint Authors -- Applications -- Alternatives -- 8 Conclusions: A Blueprint for Just Copyright -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to copyright law, dealing with symbiotic relations between law, philosophy and the sociology of the human creative ability. The study takes its organising principle from John Locke, defining and proving the fatal flaw inherent in debates on copyright: on the one hand, the copyright community is eager to arm authors with a robust property right over their creation, while on the other this community totally ignores the fact that the exposure of the individual to externalities is what makes him or her capable of creating material that is copyrightable.

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