Description
Book SynopsisArgues that contemporary copyright law, rooted as it is in a nineteenth-century Romantic understanding of the author as a solitary creative genius, may be inapposite to the realities of cultural production. This volume explores the social and cultural construction of authorship as a step toward redefining notions of authorship and copyright.
Trade Review"This important collection of essays begins to develop a coherent history of copyright and intellectual property doctrine and the place of both in organizing and policing cultural production. This volume should be read by everyone in cultural studies interested either in the history of authorship or in the ways electronic production is changing how we think about the processes of artistic creation."—Janice Radway, Duke University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
On the Author Effect: Recovering Collectivity / Martha Woodmansee
On the Author Effect: Contemporary Copyright and Collective Creativity / Peter Jaszi
Touching Words: Helen Keller, Plagiarism, Authorship / Jim Swan
Author/izing the Celebrity: Publicity Rights, Postmodern Politics, and Unauthorized Genders / Rosemary J. Coombe
The Pragmatics of Genre: Moral Theory and Lyric Authorship in Hegel and Wordsworth / Thomas Pfau
The Interdisciplinary Future of Copyright Theory / Alfred C. Yen
Milton's Contract / Peter Lindenbaum
From Rights in Copies to Copyright: The Recognition of Authors' Rights in English Law and Practice in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / John Feather
The Author in Court:
Pope v. Curll (1741) / Mark Rose
Authority and Authenticity: Scribbling Authors and the Genius of Print in Eighteenth-Century England / Marlon B. Ross
Charles Dickens, International Copyright, and the Discretionary Silence of
Martin Chuzzlewit / Gerhard Joseph
International Copyright: Structuring "the Condition of Modernity" in British Publishing / N. N. Feltes
Sanctioning Voice: Quotation Marks, the Abolition of Torture, and the Fifth Amendment / Margreta de Grazia
Broadcast Copyright and the Bureaucratization of Property / Thomas Streeter
Authorship and the Concept of National Cinema in Spain / Marvin D'Lugo
"Don't Have to DJ No More": Sampling and the "Autonomous" Creator / David Sanjek
Beaumont and/or Fletcher: Collaboration and the interpretation of Renaissance Drama / Jeffrey A. Masten
Common Properties of Pleasure: Texts in Nineteenth Century Women's Clubs / Anne Ruggles Gere
Reading and Writing the Renaissance Commonplace Book: A Question of Authorship? / Max W. Thomas
Collaborative Authorship and the Teaching of Writing / Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa Ede
The Author in Copyright: Notes for the Literary Critic / Monroe E. Price and Malla Pollack
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