[csaa-forum] New book: Authors, Users, and Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity

James Meese James.Meese at uts.edu.au
Fri Feb 2 13:23:44 ACST 2018


*Apologies for cross-posting*

Dear colleagues,

I’m just writing to let you know that my forthcoming monograph is available for pre-order.

http://bit.ly/2n6FfoK (MIT Press)
http://bit.ly/2DDg7jG (Book Depository)
http://amzn.to/2Dxfpk0 (Amazon)

In it, I conduct a cultural analysis of copyright law and cover major debates around copyright and digital media. I’ve tried to make it as accessible as possible so it could also potentially function as an introduction to copyright law.

Best wishes,

James

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Authors, Users, and Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity

In current debates over copyright law, the author, the user, and the pirate are almost always invoked. Some in the creative industries call for more legal protection for authors; activists and academics promote user rights and user-generated content; and online pirates openly challenge the strict enforcement of copyright law. In this book, James Meese offers a new way to think about these three central subjects of copyright law, proposing a relational framework that encompasses all three. Meese views authors, users, and pirates as interconnected subjects, analyzing them as a relational triad. He argues that addressing the relationships among the three subjects will shed light on how the key conceptual underpinnings of copyright law are justified in practice.

Meese presents a series of historical and contemporary examples, from nineteenth-century cases of book abridgement to recent controversies over the reuse of Instagram photos. He not only considers the author, user, and pirate in terms of copyright law, but also explores the experiential element of subjectivity—how people understand and construct their own subjectivity in relation to these three subject positions. Meese maps the emergence of the author, user, and pirate over the first two centuries of copyright’s existence; describes how regulation and technological limitations turned people from creators to consumers; considers relational authorship; explores practices in sampling, music licensing, and contemporary art; examines provisions in copyright law for user-generated content; and reimagines the pirate as an innovator.


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