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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