Copyright, Data and Creativity in the Digital Age: A Journey through Feist (Routledge Research in Intellectual Property) - Hardcover

Warner, Julian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367902850 ISBN 13: 9780367902858

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

The Supreme Court of the United States in Feist v. Rural (1991) required that databases must have a minimal degree of creativity for copyright. The judgment was highly significant and the subsequent period is understood as the post-Feist era. It has been globally influential. However, the decision is extremely complex and remains unsatisfactorily interpreted. In particular, it has been impossible to illuminate the creativity requirement.

The book gives an account of the decision’s conceptual structure, focusing on its full delineation of the opposite to creativity. In a radical and unprecedented innovation, it is correlated with an automatic computational process. Creativity itself is understood as non-computational or directly human activity concerned with meaning. Determining the presence of creativity is reduced to a four-stage test. This work then has acute practical current relevance to property in data in the digital age; it will also be of theoretical interest to, and is aimed at, researchers in, practitioners, and students of intellectual property worldwide.

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About the Author

Julian Warner is a faculty member at Queen’s Management School, Queen’s University Belfast.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367902850
• ISBN 13: 9780367902858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 178