What's Wrong with Copying? / / Abraham Drassinower.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Drassinower, Abraham,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: The Horror of the Copy --; 1. The Poverty of Value --; 2. Originality as Speaking in One’s Own Words --; 3. The Work as a Work --; 4. Infringement as Compelled Speech --; 5. The Public Domain as Dialogue --; 6. Copyright and the System of Rights --; By Way of Conclusion: A Note on Copyright Citizenship --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674286566; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674286566
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Abraham Drassinower.

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.