Copyright and creativity : the making of property rights in creative works / Andreas Rahmatian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rahmatian, Andreas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Copyright.

Intellectual property.

Creative ability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Copyright and Creativity discusses the making of property out of creative works through the legal mechanism of copyright. It shows the manner in which the law translates a great variety of expressions of the human mind into its normative system and transforms them into the property right of copyright or droit d'auteur. This timely book examines the proprietary features of copyright, the inherent limitations of its powers, and its justification and relationship to the non-proprietary realm of the public domain. The final parts of the book deal with the 'propertisation/commodification' of human

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Table of legislation; Table of cases; 1. Copyright as property; 2. Copyright-property and the public domain: explanations and justifications; 3. The limitation to the powers of copyright ownership; 4. The attribution and allocation of copyright-property: authorship, creativity and ownership; 5. The effects of copyright-property I: the problem of alienation; 6. The effects of copyright-property II: neo-feudal and neo-colonial features of international copyright protection; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-25520-0

9786613255204

0-85793-633-6

OCLC:

754582203