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  • 23 - Copyright and the ‘Profession’ of Authorship

  • from Part IV - Across Professions
  • Edited by Graeme W. Austin, Victoria University of Wellington, Andrew F. Christie, Andrew T. Kenyon, Megan Richardson
  • Book:
    Across Intellectual Property
    Published online:
    27 March 2020
    Print publication:
    12 March 2020, pp 303-314

  • 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.