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Question: 'The conception of authorship in UK copyright law in no way presupposes that the author of a protected copyright work is a genius, but it does presuppose that the author is an individual, whether this individual is a human being or a legal person such as a company.'
Discuss, paying particular attention to the following questions: Is this an accurate description of the author in UK copyright law? How, if at all, is collective creativity encouraged by UK copyright law? Could or should the law enforce the notion - advanced by commentators such as Jaszi and Woodmansee - that creativity is inevitably collaborative in nature?
Answer: In copyright law to date, the author acts as the centralising point around which the rules and concepts of the law are organised. With this in mind, deciding upon an accepted notion of authorship and a definition of who or what an author is, is crucial to a further understanding of what exactly copyright law seeks to do....(short extract)
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- Subject: Law
- Course: Intellectual Property Law
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 67%
- Words: 2040
- Date submitted: February 07, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 682
