Authorship and Ownership - Everything is fanfiction and the illegality of copywriteright law
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2018-08-31
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Authorship and Ownership - Everything is fanfiction and the illegality of copywriteright law: This thesis investigates the connection between authorship and ownership and whether it is sufficient to justify it as a foundation of the current U.S. copyright law, the alleged purpose of which is to promote, not chill, creative production. It will build a case against CR law’s treatment of genres like fanfiction with the help of narratological and linguistic evidence that reveals how the legally defined author is indicative of its lack of insight into the creative process, specifically the writing process and why we should accordingly look at alternatives that can ultimately replace it altogether. This thesis, then, tells the entire story of protecting stories, and why it is relevant that it does so now as well as in the case of fanfiction.
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