*Apologies for cross-posting* Dear colleagues, Just writing to let you know that my forthcoming monograph is available for pre-order. http://bit.ly/2n6FfoK (MIT Press) http://bit.ly/2DDg7jG (Book Depository) http://amzn.to/2Dxfpk0 (Amazon) The book covers major debates around copyright and digital media including YouTube monetisation, ownership of Instagram photos and the SOPA/PIPA protests. It also analyses recent cases from the U.S., U.K., Australia and Canada around copyright infringement and digital distribution. I¹ve tried to make it an accessible read with limited legalese so sections could potentially function as an introduction to copyright law for students. Best wishes, James ___ Authors, Users, and Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity In current debates over copyright law, the author, the user, and the pirate are almost always invoked. Some in the creative industries call for more legal protection for authors; activists and academics promote user rights and user-generated content; and online pirates openly challenge the strict enforcement of copyright law. In this book, James Meese offers a new way to think about these three central subjects of copyright law, proposing a relational framework that encompasses all three. Meese views authors, users, and pirates as interconnected subjects, analyzing them as a relational triad. He argues that addressing the relationships among the three subjects will shed light on how the key conceptual underpinnings of copyright law are justified in practice. Meese presents a series of historical and contemporary examples, from nineteenth-century cases of book abridgement to recent controversies over the reuse of Instagram photos. He not only considers the author, user, and pirate in terms of copyright law, but also explores the experiential element of subjectivity - how people understand and construct their own subjectivity in relation to these three subject positions. Meese maps the emergence of the author, user, and pirate over the first two centuries of copyright¹s existence; describes how regulation and technological limitations turned people from creators to consumers; considers relational authorship; explores practices in sampling, music licensing, and contemporary art; examines provisions in copyright law for user-generated content; and reimagines the pirate as an innovator. ‹ James Meese Lecturer and Discipline Head Digital and Social Media School of Communication Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences T. +61 (02) 9514 2955 PO Box 123. Broadway NSW 2007 Australia UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.