Copy this book : an artist's guide to copyright / Eric Schrijver.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-184).

"Copy this book is an artist's guide to copyright, written for makers. Both practical and critical, this book will guide you through the concepts underlying copyright and how they apply in your practice.How do you get copyright? For what work? And for how long? How does copyright move across mediums, and how can you go about integrating the work of others? Because they get copyright too! Copy this Book' will detail the concepts of authorship and original creation that underlie our legal system. This way, it will equip you with the conceptual keys to participate in the debate on intellectual property today."--Page 4 of cover.

1. Introduction -- 2. Copyright, the basics -- 2.1. The rights to your expressions: the basics of copyright -- 2.2. No ordinary labour: why copyright -- 2.4. The artist's honour: moral rights, -- 3. Copyright, the business -- 3.1. No easy love affair: copyright and money -- 3.2. Mutual depencency: publishers -- 3.3. Setting the conditions of copying: licenses -- 4. Copyright enforcement -- 4.1. This coin has two sides: suring and getting sued -- 4.2. An ongoing arms race: protecting through technology -- 5. Copyright, the disciplines -- 5.1. In love with the copy: visual arts -- 5.2. The protypical author: writing -- 5.3. Mixed authorship is the norm: graphic design -- 5.4. For humans and computers to read: software -- 5.5. Too useful to protect: typefaces -- 5.6. A copy of reality: photographs -- 5.7. People have rights too: personalities -- 6. Copyright, the community -- 6.1. No known restrictions: the public domain -- 6.2. Some copies are better than others: copying and ethics -- 7. Bibliography.