Title
Abstract
In these pages we seek to integrate two claims. First, we argue that, taken to their logical conclusions, the considerations that support a strict form of protection for tangible property rights do not call for a similar form of protection when applied to the case of copyright. More dramatically, these considerations demand, on pain of glaring inconsistency, a substantially weaker protection for copyright. In pursuing this claim, we show that the form of protecting property rights (including rights in tangibles) is, to an important extent, a feature of certain normal, though contingent, facts about the human world. Second, the normative question concerning the selection of a desirable protection for creative works is most naturally pursued from a tort law perspective, in part because the normative structure of copyright law simply is that of tort law.
Disciplines
Law
Date of this Version
2011
Recommended Citation
Avihay Dorfman and Assaf Jacob, "Copyright as Tort" (January 2011). Tel Aviv University Law Faculty Papers. Working Paper 155.
http://law.bepress.com/taulwps/art155