The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

by Woodmansee (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1993

  $43.32

  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.