Copyrights and copylefts : re-imagining intellectual property

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dc.contributor.advisor Calder, Todd, 1969-
dc.creator Burns, Jason Ross
dc.date.accessioned 2023-11-20T15:32:05Z
dc.date.available 2023-11-20T15:32:05Z
dc.date.issued 2023-10-12
dc.identifier.uri http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/31862
dc.description 1 online resource (77 pages) : colour graphs
dc.description Includes abstract.
dc.description Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-77).
dc.description.abstract Copyright in its modern legal form has a brief history dating back to the early eighteenth century. While initial formulations betrayed some tension between natural rights and consequentialist views, jurisprudence would eventually settle on a form of compromise that attempted to balance the rights of authors with the overall benefit to society. Copyright protections largely mirrored the legal protections afforded to tangible property and the law principally treats intellectual objects as another form of ownership. I propose that this model is predicated on a fundamental misunderstanding of the creative process and what occurs when an expression is created and disseminated to the public. The creative expression as property view fails to account for how the artist imbues an aspect of themselves into their expression and how the audience internalises those aspects. Instead, we ought to formulate a new legal paradigm that acknowledges creative expression as a manifestation of identity and affords the appropriate legal protections. en_CA
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dc.publisher Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University
dc.subject.lcsh Copyright -- History
dc.subject.lcsh Intellectual property
dc.title Copyrights and copylefts : re-imagining intellectual property en_CA
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thesis.degree.name Master of Arts in Philosophy
thesis.degree.level Masters
thesis.degree.discipline Philosophy
thesis.degree.grantor Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.)
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