Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Table of legislation; Table of cases; 1. Copyright as property; 2. Copyright-property and the public domain: explanations and justifications; 3. The limitation to the powers of copyright ownership; 4. The attribution and allocation of copyright-property: authorship, creativity and ownership; 5. The effects of copyright-property I: the problem of alienation; 6. The effects of copyright-property II: neo-feudal and neo-colonial features of international copyright protection; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

Copyright and Creativity discusses the making of property out of creative works through the legal mechanism of copyright. It shows the manner in which the law translates a great variety of expressions of the human mind into its normative system and transforms them into the property right of copyright or droit d'auteur. This timely book examines the proprietary features of copyright, the inherent limitations of its powers, and its justification and relationship to the non-proprietary realm of the public domain. The final parts of the book deal with the 'propertisation/commodification' of human.