1st Edition
Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value Incorporating the Author
1. What Is The Significance Of Authorship In Copyright? 2. Revisiting Author Theory In The Domain Of Law 3. A Tale Of Three Literary Copyrights 4. Imperial Copyright And Its Costs 5. Print Capitalism Meets Hollywood. The Work Of Industrial Authorship 6. Why Does A Gramophone Maker Deserve A Copyright? The Role Of Celebrity, Women And Consumer Markets In The Recording Industry. 7. Why Margaret Atwood, Radiohead And Bansky Are Not Anti-Copyright
Biography
Kathy Bowrey is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, UNSW, Sydney. She is a legal historian and socio-legal researcher whose research explores laws and practices that inform knowledge creation and the production, distribution and reception of technology and culture.
Winner of the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society’s Annual Prize in Legal History, 2022
Recipient of an Honorable Mention at the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia's Penny Pether Prize 2021.
'Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value is a wide-ranging work of immense erudition and archival research, combining several historical studies of the ‘incorporation’ of the author in different sectors of the ‘creative industries’.'
- Jane C Ginsburg, Sydney Law Review
