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Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice Advance Access originally published online on January 25, 2008
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 2008 3(2):141-142; doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpm243
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© The Author (2008). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved

IP in Review

In search of copyright author(s)

Charlotte Waelde *
The Idea of Authorship in Copyright
Zemer Lior
Ashgate Publishing, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7546-2376-2, Hard cover, pp. 288
£60

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Who should be considered the author of a work protected by copyright? In recent years, there has been an expanding critical literature examining notions of authorship and the role of the author in the creative process, often leading to suggestions for ways in which the copyright framework might be recalibrated to recognize collective effort. This book by Lior Zemer is an excellent addition to those works.

Eloquently written and skilfully referenced in the eight chapters that make up Zemer's book, its key aim is to persuade the reader that the individual and the public should be seen as joint authors of creative works. In making his arguments, he takes us from a Conceptual Challenge (Chapter 2) to a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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