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Downloading Personhood: A Hegelian Theory Of Copyright Law, Karla M. O'Regan
Downloading Personhood: A Hegelian Theory Of Copyright Law, Karla M. O'Regan
Canadian Journal of Law and Technology
This article will examine these responses, identifying the competing interests at work in both traditional copyright schemes and contemporary Internet-based criticisms, and put forth a theory of copyright law capable of ad- dressing the needs of these rival interests in an advanced technological era.
Part I delineates some of the more prominent theories copyright scholars have offered in response to the “IP-IT crisis.” Part II attempts to identify the source of these problems by first examining conventional justifications for copyright and the competing interests inherently at work in its conception. Part III identifies three specific factors I argue are particularly …