I can't tell. While what little I know about the deep dive on Copyright, it is a very murky and often contradictory aspect of law. Sorta like the 2nd Amendment: something written by the founders in a time when the context it was addressing was quite different from what we have now. And I have no idea how well ChatGPT can or does write in the first person. And the answer is????? TJ
On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 12:42 AM Stephen Guerin <stephen.gue...@simtable.com> wrote: > 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. >> > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > stephen.gue...@simtable.com <stephen.gue...@simtable.com> > 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 <jtjohnson...@gmail.com> > 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/ >> > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > 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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