Copyright, Data and Creativity in the Digital Age - 9780367902858

Name: Copyright, Data and Creativity in the Digital Age - 9780367902858
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Copyright, Data and Creativity in the Digital AgeA Journey through Feist\nAuthor(s): Julian Warner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367902858, 978-0367902858\nSynopsis\nThe Supreme Court of the United States in Feist v. Rural [tel] 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.\n\nThe book gives an account of the decisions 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 con.