Author Autonomy and Atomism in Copyright Law

Revision of the Copyright Law

something they would otherwise be free to do, the right to prohibit thenm from copying and distributing material which has been published. A patent constitutes a truer analogy. In common law, if an invention can be used and still kept secret by the Those who introduced the medical research bill had to make a hard decision not to accept a compromiiise ot the original specifications, including an...

Law, autonomy and advance directives.

The principle of autonomy underpins legal regulation of advance directives that refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. The primacy of autonomy in this domain is recognised expressly in the case law, through judicial pronouncement, and implicitly in most Australian jurisdictions, through enactment into statute of the right to make an advance directive. This article seeks to justify autonomy a...

Copyright Law and Organizing the Internet

A Question in the Law of Copyright

In Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, in U. S, 53 (1884), the question was presented, to what extent Congress was within its constitutional powers in attempting to grant exclusive rights to the "author, inventor, designer or proprietor of any . , photograph." Rev. St. § 4952. The subject-matter of the case was a photograph of Oscar Wilde, who was specially posed for the occasion. The argu...

Beyond Atomism

Contemporary metaphysicians have been drawn to a certain attractive picture of the structure of the world. This picture consists in classical mereology, the priority of parts over wholes, and the well-foundedness of metaphysical priority. In this short note, I show that this combination of theses entails superatomism, which is a significant strengthening of mereological atomism. This commitment...