The aesthetics and ethics of copying
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The aesthetics and ethics of copying
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying responds to the rapidly changing attitudes towards the use of another's ideas, styles, and artworks. With advances in technology making the copying of artworks and other artefacts exponentially easier, questions of copying no longer focus on the problems of forgery: they now expand into aesthetic and ethical legal concerns. This volume addresses the changes and provides the first philosophical foundation for an aesthetics and ethics of copying.
Scholars from philosophy of art, philosophy of technology, philosophy of law, ethics, legal theory, media studies, art history, literary theory, and sociology discuss the role that copying plays in human culture, confronting the question of how-and why-copying fits into our broader system of values. Teasing out the factors and conceptual distinctions that must be accounted for in an ontology of copying, they set a groundwork for understanding the nature of copies and copying, showing how these interweave with ethical and legal concepts. Covering unique concerns for copying in the domain of artworks, from music and art to plays and literature, contributors look at work by artists including Heinrich von Kleist, Robert Rauschenberg, Courbet and Manet and conclude with the normative dimensions of copying in the twenty-first century.
By bringing this topic into the philosophical domain and highlighting its philosophical relevance, The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying establishes the complex conditions-ontological, aesthetic, ethical, cultural, and legal-that underlie and complicate the topic. The result is a timely collection that establishes the need for further discussion.
Table of Contents
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Contributors
Preface
Part I: The Copying Animal: Exploring the Cultural Value of Copying
1. Copying and the Limits of Substitutability, Dieter Birnbacher
2. Deep Copy Culture, Mark Alfino
3. Imitation and Replication of Technologies: The Prospects for an Evolutionary Ethics of Copying, Wybo Houkes
Part II: What is a Copy? Conceptual Perspectives
4. What Is the Object in Which Copyright Can Subsist? An Ontological Analysis, Maria Elisabeth Reicher
5. What Is an Artifact Copy? A Quadrinomial Definition, Amrei Bahr
6. Are Counterfeits Copies?, Massimiliano Carrara
7. The Nature of Copying and the Singular Literary Work, Darren Hudson Hick
Part III: The Copying Artist: Aesthetic and Ethical Challenges
8. Illegitimate Legitimate Copies: A Grey Area in Dealing with Literary Works, Annette Gilbert
9. Appropriating Fictional Characters, James O. Young
10. Plagiarizing Nonfiction: Legal Cases, Aesthetic Questions, and the Rules of Copying, David Oels
11. Appropriation and Derogation: When Is It Wrong to Appropriate?, Lisa Jones
12. The Paradox of Style as a Concept of Art, Jan Backlund
13. Blurred Lines: A Case Study on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Copying, Eberhard Ortland
Part IV: Freedom for All? Towards an Ethics of Copying for the Digital Age
14. The Ethics of Copyright and droit d'auteur - An Outline, Thomas Dreier
15. Self-Copying and Copyright, Lionel Bently
16. Ethical Approaches for Copying Digital Artifacts: What Would the Exemplary Person [junzi] / a Good Person [phronemos] Say?, Charles Ess
17. Ethics, Evolved: An International Perspective on Copying in the Networked Age, Aram Sinnreich
18. Online Piracy and the Transformation of the Audiences' Practices: The Case of the Czech Republic, Jakub Macek and Pavel Zahradka
19. Normative Resources and Domain-specific Principles: Heading for an Ethics of Copying, Reinold Schmucker
Coda
20. In Defence of Disco Edits, Hans Nieswandt
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