In the increasingly complex and combative arena of copyright in the digital age, record companies sue college students over peer-to-peer music sharing, YouTube removes home movies because of a song playing in the background, and filmmakers are denied a distribution deal when some permissions "i" pro[...]
What is an author? What is a text? At a time when the definition of 'text' is expanding and the technology whereby texts are produced and disseminated is changing at an explosive rate, the ways 'authorship' is defined and rights conferred upon authors must also be reconsidered. This volume argues th[...]