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deep copyright thought

By Rebecca Tushnet

Reading Jessica Silbey on IP?s gendered assumptions, I can?t help thinking about copyright strike suits (lawsuits filed alleging substantial similarity between an unknown?s work and a major hit): mother?s baby, father?s maybe. When unconscious copying can be infringing, paternity is ever-contestable, and authors are potentially like women impregnated by Zeus in the form of a sunbeam. Talk about the anxiety of influence.

Full post as published by 43(B)log on October 29, 2008 (boomark / email).