Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on the contributors -- Editors' preface -- Table of cases -- Table of statutes -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Inspiration or infringement: the plagiarist in court -- Part II History -- 2 Nineteenth-century Anglo-US copyright relations: the language of piracy versus the moral high ground -- American copyright legislation: overview and context -- 'Piracy' as a synonym for 'infringement' -- 'Injury' to the British - early claims to the moral high ground -- Copyright for foreigners: the position under British law -- America reclaims the initiative -- Moral courage -- 3 Language, practice, and history -- Part III Comparative Law -- 4 The metamorphosis of contrefaçon in French copyright law -- The birth of contrefaçon -- The publishing paradigm -- The royal legislation -- The revolutionary legislation -- The commentators' approach -- The unlawful performance -- The extension of contrefaçon -- From printing to reproducing -- Composers' problematic protection -- Impact of technological progress -- Connection between reproduction and performance -- The victory of contrefaçon -- The 1957 Act -- A severing of contrefaçon? -- The breaking up of contrefaçon by new media -- Life and fate of the compulsory licensing -- Life and fate of the 'sliding-scale response' -- The global issue of public offence -- Life and fate of the HADOPI -- The paradoxical choice of criminal law -- European law and the 'commercial scale' criteria -- Grounds for leniency towards individuals -- 5 A common lawyer's perspective on contrefaçon -- Contrefaçon and the common law -- Broadening conceptions of exclusive rights -- Pressures toward and resistance to disaggregation -- Conclusion -- Part IV Economics -- 6 Copyright infringement, 'free-riding' and the lifeworld -- Introduction -- The 'incentives-access' paradigm.

The 'absolute protection' paradigm -- Two paradigms, one foundation -- Beyond Demsetz? Copyright infringement as 'good' free-riding -- Conclusion: thinking otherwise about 'free-riding' -- 7 Copyright and the limits of law-and-economics analysis -- Introduction: the law-and-economics of copyright -- The incentives-access paradigm -- The absolute protection paradigm -- The limits of economic analysis -- Conclusion: beyond economic analysis? -- Part V Linguistics -- 8 'Substantial similarity of expression' in copyright infringement actions: a linguistic perspective -- Non-literal copying and literary copyright -- Linguistics and copyright -- Can linguistics offer anything to copyright? -- A basic picture: chain and choice -- Similarity at different levels -- Design -- Word choice -- Figurative language -- Sentence structure -- Speech acts and discourse moves -- Themes -- Genre -- Three examples -- 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' -- Roger Shuy: fighting over words -- Originality in The Da Vinci Code -- Ideas and ways of expressing them -- From direct copying, through substantial taking, to use -- 'Substantial' similarity -- Three examples revisited -- Linguistic and conceptual representation -- Conclusions -- 9 Refining notions of idea and expression through linguistic analysis -- Introduction -- Analysing infringement -- The United States -- The United Kingdom -- Concordance between legal and linguistic analyses -- Validation of legal analysis -- Enriching legal analysis -- Literary works as less intuitive subjects of analysis -- Conclusion -- Part VI Computer software -- 10 Copyright, piracy and software -- Computer programs as 'works' -- Writing and using software -- Abstraction and modularization -- The art of computer programming -- Source and executable code -- Software maintenance -- Substitute products -- Component markets.

Substitution and components and open systems -- Networked economics -- Pace of change -- Hardware is also software -- Intellectual property and software -- Piracy and infringement -- Licences -- Software protection, technology and law -- Detection technology -- Conclusion -- 11 Of plots, puddings and draught-excluders: the law as it applies to the infringement of computer programs -- Software does not equate with other copyright works -- Software and the idea-expression dichotomy in copyright -- The idea-expression dichotomy and other copyright works -- Should software be protected by a sui generis right? -- Copyright cannot adequately protect the investment in software -- Software is exceptionally easy to 'pirate' -- Software and a sui generis right -- Part VII Information studies -- 12 Measuring text reuse in the news industry -- Introduction -- Text reuse and newspaper production -- The news industry -- Journalism and text reuse -- The METER Project -- Manually identifying text reuse -- Automatically identifying text reuse -- Concluding thoughts -- 13 Reflections on measuring text reuse from a copyright law perspective -- Introduction -- Translating the concept of text reuse into copyright law -- Derivation -- Copying of ideas/substantial part -- The role of measuring text reuse in copyright law -- Part VIII Literature -- 14 Unoriginal genius: plagiarism and the construction of 'Romantic' authorship -- 15 The genius and the labourer: authorship in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century copyright law -- Part IX Art -- 16 Piracy and authorship in contemporary art and the artistic commonwealth -- Introduction -- The institution of authorship in art -- Contemporary art and copyright -- The artistic commonwealth -- High and low, photography and copyright law -- Conclusion -- 17 Copyright's imperfect republic and the artistic commonwealth.

Copyright - between the artefact and its essence -- Infringement in art and copyright -- The 'artistic commonwealth' - accommodating transgression -- Aesthetic neutrality and the artistic commonwealth -- Conclusion -- Part X Sociology/music -- 18 Reggae open source: how the absence of copyright enabled the emergence of popular music in Jamaica -- On Orange street: political economy at the birth of reggae -- Social authorship (1): intensification and the division of labour -- Social authorship (2): translation, origination and reuse -- Riddims, open source and coming first to market -- Conclusion -- 19 'Free-riding on the riddim'? Open source, copyright law and reggae music in Jamaica -- Part XI Criminology -- 20 Copyright infringement: a criminological perspective -- Introduction -- Free-and-easy crimes -- A criminological perspective: 'piracy' and theories of crime -- Challenges to criminologists -- Music piracy as a grey area 'crime' -- Copyright infringement in late modernity: the importance of culture -- Concluding reflections -- 21 Towards a clearer understanding of the file-sharing phenomenon? Comments on a criminological perspective -- General observations -- Motivation versus rationalisation -- Validity of rationales -- What can and should be done? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Index.