Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing; Copyright and the "male gaze": a feminist critique of copyright law
"Film theorist Laura Mulvey coined the term "male gaze"
to describe the "masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and
represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the male viewer":
in a paper for the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender,
Southwestern Law School professor John Tehranian applies Mulvey's idea
to the complex and often nonsensical way that copyright determines who
is an "author" of a work and thus entitled to control it, and shows how
the notion of authorship reflects and amplifies the power imbalances
already present in the world...
Copyright's Male Gaze: Authorship and Inequality in a Panoptic World [John Tehranian/Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Vol. 41, 2018]"
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Friday, November 30, 2018
Friday, December 12, 2008
Pamela Samuelson on Copyright Reform, Bunsnip.com, 11/13/08
Via Bunsnip.com: Pamela Samuelson on Copyright Reform at Free Culture Conference, Berkeley 2008:
"I think one reason that it’s really important to think about copyright reform is because really pretty much every 40 years there has been copyright reform. So it’s time to really get that conversation started. And a lot of what we need to do is move to better principals about what a good copyright law would look like. It shouldn’t be as long – current copyright law is 200 pages long, 300 if you buy certain editions – and it’s too complicated. I can’t make my way through about half the provisions because they’re so incomprehensible. Maybe it was ok that copyright law was really abstruse at a time when the only people who needed to know anything about it were the industry lawyers who essentially were mediating these kind of inter-industry disputes. If they knew what it meant and nobody else did, who cared, as long as it just applied to them. But now that copyright law is really affecting and regulating our daily activities, we the people deserve a copyright law that’s simple, that’s fair, that’s balanced, and that gets us to a much better way of thinking about what good role copyright law can play.
Like some of the earlier speakers, I worry a lot about the implications of copyright for the activities that all of you do on a daily basis. There’s a really fun essay that was written by one of my colleagues in Copyright, John Tehranian, entitled, “Infringement Nation.” What John does in the article is go through the average day of a professor (seems to be modeled on himself)."
http://www.bunsnip.com/2008/11/free-culture-conference-2008-pamela.html
"I think one reason that it’s really important to think about copyright reform is because really pretty much every 40 years there has been copyright reform. So it’s time to really get that conversation started. And a lot of what we need to do is move to better principals about what a good copyright law would look like. It shouldn’t be as long – current copyright law is 200 pages long, 300 if you buy certain editions – and it’s too complicated. I can’t make my way through about half the provisions because they’re so incomprehensible. Maybe it was ok that copyright law was really abstruse at a time when the only people who needed to know anything about it were the industry lawyers who essentially were mediating these kind of inter-industry disputes. If they knew what it meant and nobody else did, who cared, as long as it just applied to them. But now that copyright law is really affecting and regulating our daily activities, we the people deserve a copyright law that’s simple, that’s fair, that’s balanced, and that gets us to a much better way of thinking about what good role copyright law can play.
Like some of the earlier speakers, I worry a lot about the implications of copyright for the activities that all of you do on a daily basis. There’s a really fun essay that was written by one of my colleagues in Copyright, John Tehranian, entitled, “Infringement Nation.” What John does in the article is go through the average day of a professor (seems to be modeled on himself)."
http://www.bunsnip.com/2008/11/free-culture-conference-2008-pamela.html
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