Copyright
Copyright
- Kim Treiger-Bar-AmKim Treiger-Bar-AmIndependent Scholar
Summary
Copyright gives an author control over the presentation of her work. Economic rights afford control over copies, and the noneconomic rights known as moral rights afford control over changes. An author’s moral rights remain with her even after she sells her economic rights in copyright. The excessive control that copyright offers to copyright owners may be limited by cementing these authorial rights, for all authors.
Some elements of copyright law allow the meaning of a work as perceived by its audience to develop and evolve. The strengthening of that support by extending rights to the public will further restrict copyright’s excesses.
Subjects
- Literary Theory
- Print Culture and Digital Humanities
