ABSTRACT
Copyright scholars disagree about whether we should conceptualize copyright as a form of property. This essay accepts the property metaphor and asks what it entails. It observes that if copyright is property, then copyright owners are landlords. It reflects on why copyright owners love the property metaphor, but hate the landlord metaphor. And it asks how conceptualizing copyright owners as landlords might affect our assessment of their moral claims.
Frye, Brian L, Literary Landlords in Plaguetime (September 28, 2020).
First posted 2020-10-25 06:57:26
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