PublishedHarvard University Press, April 2015 |
ISBN9780674743977 |
FormatHardcover, 283 pages |
Abraham Drassinower presents a new way to balance the needs of creators and users of authored works. Disentangling copyright theory from its focus on the economic value of a work as a commodity, he views a work instead as a communicative act. Infringement, according to this perspective, is an unauthorized appropriation of another's speech.