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Record Nr.

UNINA9910159000703321

Autore

Larsson #Stefan <1978->

Titolo

Conceptions in the code : how metaphors explain legal challenges in digital times / / Stefan Larsson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-19-065040-0

0-19-065041-9

0-19-065039-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Oxford studies in language and law

Disciplina

346.048

Soggetti

Intellectual property - Social aspects

Peer-to-peer architecture (Computer networks) - Law and legislation - Social aspects

Technological innovations - Law and legislation - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

How we understand technological and social change -- Metaphors and norms -- The embodied law -- Conceptions of copyright -- Copies : a metaphoric expansion of copyright -- Platform, storage or bulletin board? The Swedish Pirate bay court case -- Between form and function in (intellectual) property.

Sommario/riassunto

Through an analysis of copyright in a digital context, Stefan Larsson s Conceptions in the Code explains the role that metaphor plays in the law's handling of technological change. It makes a significant contribution to sociolegal analysis as well as conceptual metaphor theory.