The Subject of Copyright: Perspectives from Law, Aesthetics and Cognitive Science

ISBN-13: 9781032412764 / Angielski

Ewa Laskowska-Litak

Opis

Exploring the concept of copyright subject matter through the lenses of law, aesthetics and cognitive science, this book describes the historical evolution of a work into an artefact that qualifies as copyrightable subject matter.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements vi

Introduction: how do we know what is protected in copyright law? 1

1 The origins of artefactuality 5

2 The origins of non-artefactuality 43

3 Intuitive artefactuality 82

4 In search of a lost object (the concept) 141

Index 199

O autorze

Ewa Laskowska-Litak is Assistant Professor of Law and the Head of the Future Law Lab project at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. She holds a PhD, LL.M. (Heidelberg); she is the WIPO expert and active member of international scientific associations (ALAI, EPIP, ATRIP). Ewa is also a former research postdoc visitor at the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge. She was awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science (2016), Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2018–2020), Polish Patent Office (2016). Ewa acted as a principal investigator of several research projects funded by the Polish National Science Centre (2012, 2017), DAAD (2012–2013), and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2017).