Emma Steel, Original Sin: Reconciling Originality in Copyright with Music as an Evolutionary Art Form, 37 European Intellectual Property Review 66 (2015). Copyright often makes little sense, particularly when you explain it to people who are not familiar with its concepts. Jessica Litman expresses this problem well in her book Digital Copyright by stating that people ‘find it very hard to believe that there’s really a law out there that says the stuff the copyright law says’. Anyone who has had to talk to members of the public about copyright will have similar experiences. One area of copyright that has been receiving quite a lot of coverage recently is originality of music, especially in various high profile cases in which famous artists have been sued for copyright infringement … (more)
[Andres Guadamuz, JOTWELL, 29 March]
First posted 2017-03-29 11:47:24
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