Copyright Class Struggle - Creative Economies in a Social Media Age

Employing law and philosophy of economics, this book explores how copyright shapes ownership of ideas in the social media age.

List of contents

1. On owning ideas in our time; Part I. IP Disparities: 2. Authors as hired hands; 3. Independent invention and its discontents; Part II. IP Liberties: 4. Hollywood's copyright exemptions?; 5. The Beijing consensus; Part III. Pirate's Dilemmas: 6. The inquisitorial internet; 7. Why we can't build universal digital libraries; 8. Conclusion.

About the author

Hannibal Travis is Professor of Law at Florida International University College of Law, where his research focuses on the universal accessibility of digital libraries, the rights of authors and performers to compensation from streaming sites under international and domestic law, privacy and the surveillance of Facebook or YouTube activity, and copyright and patent reform. Previously he practiced technology and entertainment law at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York and at O'Melveny & Myers in San Francisco.

Summary

Employing the law and philosophy of economics, this book explores the legal controversies that emerge when authors, singers, filmmakers leverage their rights into major paydays. It should be read by anyone interested in how copyright law - and its potential reform - shapes the ownership of ideas in the social media age.

Product details

• Authors: Hannibal Travis, Travis Hannibal
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781316645031
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64503-1
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, Social Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, LAW / Commercial / General, LAW / Intellectual Property / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, LAW / Computer & Internet, Politics & government, Political Economy, Politics and government, intellectual property law, E-commerce law