Tom, What do you think? Was this PhD proposal written by a person or ChatGPT?
The Metaphysics and Ethics of Copyright > > Abstract > > My project is motivated by a host of problems that arise in the literature > of U.S. copyright law, including legal decisions and established doctrines > that are alternatively arbitrary, counterintuitive, and contradictory. The > central argument of my dissertation is that these problems arise from a > failure in copyright law to recognize the nature of its objects, authored > works, and that a coherent and stable approach to copyright must be built > upon such an understanding. To this end, I outline a multidimensional > ontology of authored works suitable for grounding the central principles > and practical application of copyright. > > Centrally, I contend, a reasonable understanding of copyright depends on > grasping four dimensions of the nature of authored works: > > 1. their atomic dimension, including the parts of which they are > composed, and the selection and arrangement of these parts; > 2. their causal dimension, including their contexts of creation and > instantiation, and the weak and strong historical links that connect a > given work to others (building here on the work of Jerrold Levinson); > 3. their abstract dimension, in particular, pace Nelson Goodman, > Jerrold Levinson, and Mark Sagoff, that all such works are best understood > as type/token entities capable of multiple instantiation; and > 4. their categorial dimension, drawing on the work of Kendall Walton, > such that multiple works belonging to mutually-exclusive categories can be > embodied in the same physical object. > > On an understanding of these factors, I establish conditions for the > copyrightability of authored works, for the infringement of these > copyrights, and for the creation of derivative works. > > Finally, I consider the right of copyright. First showing how the > strongest contenders for grounding this right—the Lockean and > Constitutional approaches—fail to align with our understanding of authored > works, I proceed to sketch an alternative approach to grounding the right > of copyright—a right based on the author's creativity as realized in the > authored work—building on the ontological account outlined above. > _______________________________________________________________________ [email protected] <[email protected]> CEO, https://www.simtable.com <http://www.simtable.com/> 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 11:08 PM Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://www.facebook.com/5722102/posts/pfbid0D8i4GuCUJeRsDJjM1JJtfkDYDMCb7Y7RdK2EoyVhRuctg9z2fhvpo1bB2WAxGBzcl/?sfnsn=mo&mibextid=ijjfgs > > ======================= > Tom Johnson > Inst. for Analytic Journalism > Santa Fe, New Mexico > 505-577-6482 > ======================= > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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