Authors, Users, and Pirates av James (Lecturer University of Technology Sydney) Meese

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<b>An examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational framework.</b><p>In 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.</p><p>Meese presents a series of historical and contemporary examples, from nineteenth-century cases of