Copyright
Janis Jefferies; Sarah KemberPublished On
2019-03-12ISBN
Language
- English
Print Length
458 pages (xiv+444)Dimensions
Weight
Media
OCLC Number
1099535636LCCN
2019452861BIC
- LNR
- LNRC
- KNTP
BISAC
- LAW050010
- LAN027000
LCC
- Z551
Keywords
- collection of essays
- copyright
- copyright debate
- open access
- ethics
- creativity
- artist’s perspectives
- writer’s perspectives
- feminist perspectives
- international perspectives
- future of publishing
- intellectual property
Whose Book Is it Anyway?
A View from Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity
- Janis Jefferies (editor)
- Sarah Kember (editor)
Whose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as artist’s perspectives, writer’s perspectives, feminist, and international perspectives – that are too often marginalized or elided altogether.
The diverse range of contributors take various approaches, from the scholarly and the essayistic to the graphic, to explore the future of publishing based on their experiences as publishers, artists, writers and academics. Considering issues such as intellectual property, copyright and comics, digital publishing and remixing, and what it means (not) to say one is an author, these vibrant essays urge us to view central aspects of writing and publishing in a new light.
Whose Book is it Anyway? is a timely and varied collection of essays. It asks us to reconceive our understanding of publishing, copyright and open access, and it is essential reading for anyone invested in the future of publishing.
Contents
- John Cayley
- Daniel C. Howe
- Louise O’Hare
- Janneke Adema
- Michael Bhaskar
- Alison Baverstock
6. Telling Stories or Selling Stories: Writing for Pleasure, Writing for Art or Writing to Get Paid?
(pp. 129–140)- Sophie Rochester
7. Copyright in the Everyday Practice of Writers
(pp. 141–180)- Smita Kheria
- Ronan Deazley
- Jason Mathis
9. Diversity or Die: How the Face of Book Publishing Needs to Change if it is to Have a Future
(pp. 229–242)- Danuta Kean
10. Writing on the Cusp of Becoming Something Else
(pp. 243–266)- J. R. Carpenter
11. Confronting Authorship, Constructing Practices (How Copyright is Destroying Collective Practice)
(pp. 267–308)- Eva Weinmayr
12. Ethical Scholarly Publishing Practices, Copyright and Open Access: A View from Ethnomusicology and Anthropology
(pp. 309–346)- Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg
- Joseph F. Turcotte
14. Redefining Reader and Writer, Remixing Copyright: Experimental Publishing at if:book Australia
(pp. 379–402)- Simon Groth
1. Publishing Industry
(pp. 405–414)- Janis Jefferies
2. Is the Current Copyright Framework Fit for Purpose in Relation to Writing, Reading and Publishing in the Digital Age?
(pp. 415–416)- Laurence Kaye
3. Is the Current Copyright Framework Fit for Purpose in Relation to Writing, Reading, and Publishing in the Digital Age?
(pp. 417–422)- Richard Mollet
4. History of Copyright Changes 1710–2013
(pp. 423–426)- Rachel Calder
5. Is the Current Copyright Framework Fit for Purpose in Relation to Writing, Reading, and Publishing in the Digital Age?
(pp. 427–428)- Max Whitby
Introduction: Whose Book is it Anyway? A View from Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity
(pp. 1–18)- Janis Jefferies
- Sarah Kember
Contributors
Janis Jefferies
(editor)Janis Jefferies is professor emerita of Visual Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She has edited numerous books and chapter contributions on textiles, technology, performance and practice research, most recently TECHSTYLE Series 2.0: Ariadne's Thread (2017) and A Reader TEXTYLE 2.0 FabPublic, Talking about Textiles, Community and Public Space both for CHAT/MILL6 Foundation. Hong Kong (2018). The Enchantment of Textiles research project with Professor Barbara Layne, Concordia University documents twenty years of their collaborative, textile and technology based research. The exhibition will be shown at the ASM Expression Gallery. Art Science Museum, Singapore in 2019. She is contributing 'Art, Craft & Design technologies' to Charlie Gere and Francesca Franco's three-volume Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art, to be published in 2022.
Sarah Kember
(editor)Sarah Kember is a writer and academic. She is Professor of New Technologies of Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London and Director of Goldsmiths Press. Her work incorporates new media, photography and feminist cultural approaches to science and technology. Publications include a novel and a short story The Optical Effects of Lightning (2011) and '"The Mysterious Case of Mr Charles D. Levy"' (2010). Experimental work includes an edited open access electronic book entitled Astrobiology and the Search for Life on Mars (2011) and "Media, Mars and Metamorphosis" (Culture Machine, Vol. 11). Recent monographs include a feminist critique of smart media: iMedia: The Gendering of Objects, Environments and Smart Materials (2016) and, with Joanna Zylinska, Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process (2012). Sarah co-edits the journal Feminist Theory. Previous publications include: Virtual Anxiety. Photography, New Technologies and Subjectivity (1998); Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life (2003) and the co-edited volume Inventive Life. Towards the New Vitalism (2006). Current work includes a novel, provisionally entitled A Day in The Life of Janet Smart. With Janis Jefferies, Sarah Kember was co-PI of an RCUK funded project on digital publishing ('Whose Book Is It Anyway?' 2012–2016), part of CREATe (Centre for Creativity, Copyright, Regulation, Enterprise and Technology).