Moral Rights, Creativity, and Copyright Law: The Death of the Transformative Author

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Sarah Hook (University of Sydney, Australia)

Moral Rights, Creativity, and Copyright Law

The Death of the Transformative Author

Sarah Hook (University of Sydney, Australia)

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Routledge
29 December 2023

Literary studies: general; Politics & government; Jurisprudence & general issues; International human rights law; Social law

This book argues that moral rights provisions in copyright law rest on a misunderstanding, or romanticisation, of the role of the author.

The Romantic conception of authorship, as a lone genius, creating from nothing, sensitive and vulnerable, has helped publishers push for strong copyright reform. But is this conception borne out in practice – especially in a world of meme culture, of artificial intelligence generated art and poetry, and of open source and fan fiction? This book probes the romantic vignette of the author through its legal adoption. Moral rights are rights that attach to the non-economic – for example, intellectual or emotional – interests of an author in their work. Much like defamation, moral rights see the right of reputation as superior to the right of freedom of expression. However, unlike defamation, moral rights are not protecting against defamatory actions against a person. In most jurisdictions, they are provisions set within copyright regimes; regimes whose purpose is to incentivise innovation. Challenging the way we think about authorship and how it should be protected by law, the book draws on a wide range of historical and contemporary examples to demonstrate how moral rights can constitute a barrier to transformative creativity. While authors and artists require strong rights to protect their ability to earn an income and incentivise creativity, moral rights, the book argues, may in turn actually harm their ability to do so.

This timely criticism of moral rights will appeal to researchers, students, policy makers and lawyers working in the area of intellectual property law, as well as legal theorists, sociolegal scholars and legal historians with relevant interests.

By: Sarah Hook (University of Sydney Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9781032534299
ISBN 10: 103253429X
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 29 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sarah Hook is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at Western Sydney University, Australia.