Book contents
- Across Intellectual Property
- Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
- Frontispiece
- Across Intellectual Property
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Across Regimes
- Part II Across Jurisdictions
- Part III Across Disciplines
- Part IV Across Professions
- 19 Intellectual Property Scholars and University Intellectual Property Policies
- 20 ‘Measuring’ an Academic Contribution
- 21 Language and Law
- 22 Intellectual Property in the Courtroom
- 23 Copyright and the ‘Profession’ of Authorship
- Laudatio
- Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
23 - Copyright and the ‘Profession’ of Authorship
from Part IV - Across Professions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 March 2020
- Across Intellectual Property
- Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
- Frontispiece
- Across Intellectual Property
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Across Regimes
- Part II Across Jurisdictions
- Part III Across Disciplines
- Part IV Across Professions
- 19 Intellectual Property Scholars and University Intellectual Property Policies
- 20 ‘Measuring’ an Academic Contribution
- 21 Language and Law
- 22 Intellectual Property in the Courtroom
- 23 Copyright and the ‘Profession’ of Authorship
- Laudatio
- Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
Summary
Copyright embraces a vast range of authors and is intended to be neutral about the nature of authorship save for the requirement of originality. Nevertheless, the description author can be illusory and even unhelpful. Great visual arts masters have for centuries practised their art through the directed hand of others. Are they authors? Should conductors of music, stage directors or curators of art exhibitions be deemed authors? What would ‘the show’ be without them? And what of authorship in the modern computer age of the creation of works where the human hand is significantly or even completely removed? On the other hand, indigenous cultures typically eschew notions of private ownership and the individual as author. The age-old concept of authorship in copyright is open to serious reflection and review.
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- Across Intellectual PropertyEssays in Honour of Sam Ricketson, pp. 303 - 314Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020