Ebook: The aesthetics and ethics of copying

Copying and the limits of substitutability / Dieter Birnbacher -- Deep copy culture / Mark Alfino -- Imitation and replication of technologies : the prospects for an evolutionary ethics of copying / Wybo Houkes -- What is the object in which copyright can subsist? An ontological analysis / Maria Elisabeth Reicher -- What is an artifact copy? A quadrinomial definition / Amrei Bahr -- Are counterfeits copies? / Massimiliano Carrara -- The nature of copying and the singular literary work / Darren Hudson Hick -- Illegitimate legitimate copies : a grey area in dealing with literary works / Annette Gilbert -- Appropriating fictional characters / James O. Young -- Plagiarizing nonfiction : legal cases, aesthetic questions, and the rules of copying / David Oels -- Appropriation and derogation : when is it wrong to appropriate? / Lisa Jones -- The paradox of style as a concept of art / Jan Bäcklund -- Blurred lines : a case study on the ethics and aesthetics of copying / Eberhard Ortland -- The ethics of copyright and droit d'auteur : an outline / Thomas Dreier -- Self-copying and copyright / Lionel Bently -- Ethical approaches for copying digital artifacts : what would the exemplary person [junzi]/a good person [phronimos] say? / Charles Melvin Ess -- Ethics, evolved : an international perspective on copying in the networked age / Aram Sinnreich -- Online piracy and the transformation of the audiences' practices : the case of the Czech Republic / Jakub Macek and Pavel Zahrádka -- Normative resources and domain-specific principles : heading for an ethics of copying / Reinold Schmücker -- In defense of disco edits / Hans Nieswandt.;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.