Copyright and Piracy: An Interdisciplinary Critique

Copyright has been the subject of interdisciplinary inquiry, but generally from the perspective of 'authorship'. This volume takes a different tack, examining the concept of infringement and its cousins, imitation and inspiration, from a variety of approaches. Rather than proposing a litany of discrete chapters each independently covering a different discipline, the Editors have planned each chapter to pair lawyers' and non lawyers' perspectives, so that each commentator addresses and critiques his or her counterpart's analysis.

Lionel Bently is Herchel Smith professor of Intellectual Property Law, Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, and Professorial Fellow at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Jennifer Davis is Herchel Smith College Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law and a member of the Centre for Intellectual property and Information Law, University of Cambridge. She is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Jane C. Ginsburg is Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, and Director of the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, at the Columbia University School of Law. She is also an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.