Wanted, More than Human Intellectual Property: Animal Authors and Human Machines

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Johanna Gibson (Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property at Queen Mary, University of London.)

Wanted, More than Human Intellectual Property

Animal Authors and Human Machines

Johanna Gibson (Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property at Queen Mary, University of London.)

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Routledge
27 December 2024

Jurisprudence & general issues; Animal law; Intellectual property law; Legal aspects of computing; Artificial intelligence

This book analyses animal creativity in order to unsettle the dominant assumptions that underpin current ideas of authorship and ownership in intellectual property.

Drawing upon theories of animal behaviour and cognitive ethology, the book exposes and disrupts the anthropocentrism that informs prevailing assumptions about creativity, intentionality and authorship within the field of intellectual property. Moving on to challenge the invocation of a more general human-nonhuman distinction in this context, the book also engages the challenge to this distinction posed by artificial intelligence. Incorporating critical animal studies, behavioural science, ethology, critical legal studies and legal philosophy, the book presents a new idea of creativity, which undermines the kind of rivalrous models now common in the field of intellectual property.

This book will be of considerable interest for those studying and teaching in the area of intellectual property, as well as in animal law. It will also appeal to legal theorists and others working in the social sciences in the areas of posthumanism and animal studies.

By: Johanna Gibson (Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property at Queen Mary University of London.)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367356606
ISBN 10: 0367356600
Pages: 522
Publication Date: 27 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Part 1 The Philosopher 1. A Word Between Us 2. The Common Touch 3. What Is It Like To Be An Author? Part 2 The Ants 4. Ant People 5. A Theory Of Everything 6. Pay Attention, Stupid Part 3 Mercury 7. Turn To Play 8. All Authors Are Liars 9. The Gods Must Be Playful

Johanna Gibson is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.