Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2011
Abstract
My goal in this project is to reclaim copyright for readers (and listeners, viewers, and other members of the audience). I think, and will try to persuade you, that the gradual and relatively recent disappearance of readers’ interests from the core of copyright’s perceived goals has unbalanced the copyright system. It may have prompted, at least in part, the scholarly critique of copyright that has fueled copyright lawyers’ impression that “so many in academia side with the pirates.” It may also be responsible for much of the deterioration in public support for copyright. I argue here that copyright seems out of whack because it has forgotten some of its most important constituents.
Recommended Citation
Litman, Jessica D. "Readers' Copyright." J. Copyright Soc'y 58, no. 2 (2011): 325-53.
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