One of the fundamental principles of copyright law is the expression vs. idea dichotomy, which states that copyright … to a copyright work cannot claim authorship or joint authorship of that work. Instead, it is the author or creator of the … work who becomes the sole copyright owner, even when the idea appropriated by the author was sine qua non for creation of …

copyright in works, the answer in legal history to the question of what is at the root of title is not so clear and that lack of …: what is at the root of title to copyright in works? The contestability that swirls around this question, which in part is … also a ‘history war’, can be distilled in a generalised way. One side perceives modern statutory copyright as having its …

Copyright requires us to distinguish between two different ways of transforming a “work of authorship”: “derivative … proximately from a work to copyright owners. Many people blame this expansionist tendency on a “propertarian” understanding of … copyright, and argue that the solution is to abandon any notion of copyright as property. I agree that current copyright …