Moral Rights, Creativity, and Copyright Law: The Death of the Transformative Author

This book argues that moral rights provisions in copyright law rest on a misunderstanding, or romanticisation, of the role of the author.

The Romantic conception of authorship, as a lone genius, creating from nothing, sensitive and vulnerable, has helped publishers push for strong copyright reform. But is this conception borne out in practice – especially in a world of meme culture, of artificial intelligence generated art and poetry, and of open source and fan fiction? This book probes the ...