{"product_id":"authors-users-and-pirates-isbn-9780262549653","title":"Authors, Users, and Pirates","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational framework.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeese 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.Acknowledgments ix \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Copyright Law and Subjectivity— A Relational Approach 1 \u003cbr\u003e1 Connected Origins: Locating Relationality in Copyright History 21 \u003cbr\u003e2 From the Piratical to the Creative User 39 \u003cbr\u003e3 Creative Practice and Relational Authorship 61 \u003cbr\u003e4 Locating the User and Reforming Law 85 \u003cbr\u003e5 Reimagining the Pirate: Approaching Infringement Relationally 111 \u003cbr\u003e6 Producing the Pirate: The Courtroom and Cultural Power 131 \u003cbr\u003eConclusion 155 \u003cbr\u003eNotes 163 \u003cbr\u003eBibliography 205 \u003cbr\u003eIndex 221James Meese is a Lecturer in the School of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300678979813,"sku":"NP9780262549653","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262549653.jpg?v=1767721967","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/authors-users-and-pirates-isbn-9780262549653","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}