Copyright as Personal Property
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 July 2025
- ISBN 9780192864420
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 240x165x24 mm
- Weight 604 g
- Language English 759
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Short description:
This book argues that copyright, though intangible, is more like a property right than a chose in action. It aims to use analogies with tangible things to curtail undue expansion of copyright and to challenge rigid property classifications, proposing a more nuanced spectrum-based view of property rights.
MoreLong description:
Copyright statutes in many jurisdictions clearly state that copyright is a property right. However, it's not always clear exactly how. Some see it as no more than a statutory right, while others think of it as a chose in action, like debts or shares. Copyright as Personal Property demonstrates why it is incorrect to conceptualize copyright as a chose in action and argues that, despite being an intangible asset, copyright is more analogous to land and chattels.
This book aims to achieve two main objectives. The first is to demonstrate much against popular belief that the analogies with land and chattels help contain the scope of copyright within normatively justifiable limits. Starting with the "thing-relatedness" of copyright, the monograph draws parallels with the acquisition of copyright, the nature of exclusionary rights, exclusive powers and privileges, their enforcement, and derivative interests. It employs concepts of property theory, such as numerus clausus, to provide the necessary benchmark to guide the boundaries of copyright. The second objective is to challenge the rigid and binary classification of property rights into choses in possession and choses in action. By addressing an important evolutionary gap in the conceptualization of property rights, this work lays the groundwork for a more sophisticated taxonomy, viewing property rights as existing on a spectrum. It goes on to provide the metrics to calibrate this spectrum, ensuring the incremental and orderly development of property rights.
Original and thought-provoking, the analogy this book develops with land and chattels shows how the unjustifiable expansion of copyright can be curbed and offers a more sophisticated classification of property rights than that based simply on tangibility.
Table of Contents:
Setting the Stage
Thing-Relatedness in Copyright
Acquisition of Copyright
Exclusionary Rights, Exclusive Powers, and Privileges in Copyright
Copyright Enforcement and Remedies
Defences and Limits on Uses
Derivative Interests in Copyright
Final Remarks
