Title: Creativity and Copyright: U.S. and Indian Perspective
Abstract: Creativity is a very important aspect of copyright, copyright promotes creativity. Modern copyright law is based upon a theory that increase more copyright protection creativity will increase by itself. This theory has been the driving force behind an economic vision that has expanded, beyond all recognition, the original law created by the Statute of Anne. In every copyrighted material there is presence of some creativeness. If the state provides protection to the authors on their creative works then they will be encouraged and the society will also be encouraged to work more creatively. The changing social context, such as the application of new media and communication technologies, new production of knowledge, and especially the democratization of creativity, has brought about continuing challenges to this regulatory framework. The greater the protection, the greater the reward; the greater the reward, the greater the incentive to create new works; and the greater the incentive to create new works, the greater the number of new works created. According to Macaulay, by increasing the financial bounty available to authors, we ultimately increase the public’s bounty of new works of authorship. In other words, copyright law promotes creativity.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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