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The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature - Post-Contemporary Interventions
Martha Woodmansee
The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature - Post-Contemporary Interventions
Martha Woodmansee
Argues that contemporary copyright law, rooted as it is in a nineteenth-century Romantic understanding of the author as a solitary creative genius, may be inapposite to the realities of cultural production. This volume explores the social and cultural construction of authorship as a step toward redefining notions of authorship and copyright.
472 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 21, 1994 |
ISBN13 | 9780822314127 |
Publishers | Duke University Press |
Pages | 472 |
Dimensions | 240 × 156 × 32 mm · 818 g |
Editor | Jaszi, Peter |
Editor | Woodmansee, Martha |