Stefan Larsson

Conceptions in the Code

How Metaphors Explain Legal Challenges in Digital Times

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 142mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780190650384
• ISBN-10: 0190650389
• Artikelnr.: 47867237

Autorenporträt

Stefan Larsson is Associate Professor in Technology and Social Change at Lund University Internet Institute (LUii) in Sweden, and a sociolegal researcher who studies issues in the intersection of conceptual, legal and social change, particularly in relation to digitisation and the Internet. He holds a PhD in Sociology of Law as well as a PhD in Spatial Planning, and an LLM. He is co-founder of LUii as well as the Cybernorm research group at Lund University, and has led various research projects related to trust in a digital context, open data, law and digital challenges, digital consumption and indebtedness, and more.

Inhaltsangabe

1. HOW WE UNDERSTAND TECHNOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE
1.1. Conceptual Struggles in Societal Change
1.2. Neutral Infrastructure or Filtering Mediator
1.3. Cognition, Law, and Digital Technology
1.4. Outline of the Book
1.5. Conceptual Metaphors
1.6. Copyright as a Case
1.7. Intended Audience
2. METAPHORS AND NORMS
2.1. Conceptual Metaphor Theory
2.2. Embodiment
2.3. Metaphors and Law
2.4. Cognition and Norms
2.5. Skeuomorphs and the Conceptualisation of the Digital World
2.6. Skeuomorphs and conceptual path dependence
2.7. Summing Up
3. THE EMBODIED LAW
3.1. Corpus Juris
3.2. Embodiment and the Creation of Meaning
3.3. Seeing the Embodiment: Justice Under Law
3.4. Discussion: Law Incarnate
3.5. Conclusions
4. CONCEPTIONS OF COPYRIGHT
4.1. Metaphors We File-share By
4.2. Method
4.3. Findings and Analysis
4.4. Conclusions
5. COPIES: A METAPHORIC EXPANSION OF COPYRIGHT
5.1. Copies and their rights
5.2. The Pirate Bay Case and the Calculation of Value
5.3. Analysis: The Problem of Regulating Copies
5.4. Conclusions: Copy Me Unhappy
6. PLATFORM, STORAGE OR BULLETIN BOARD? THE SWEDISH PIRATE BAY COURT CASE
6.1. Categorization, Digitalisation and Law
6.2. The Pirate Bay
6.3. The Pirate Bay as a Metaphoric Court Case
6.4. Liability of the Functions
6.5. Outlook: Generativity in Decentralisation
6.6. Normative Implications of Skeuomorphs
6.7. Conclusions
7. BETWEEN FORM AND FUNCTION IN (INTELLECTUAL) PROPERTY
7.1. Between form and function
7.2. Renner and (Intellectual) Property
7.3. The P in IP
7.4. Conceptual Legal Change
7.5. Conceptual Transition of (Intellectual) Property
7.6. Körperlich and Control
7.7. Summing up: Conceptual Legal Change
8. CONCLUSIONS: CONCEPTIONS IN THE CODE
8.1. Metaphors, law, and digitality
8.2. Conceptual Path-Dependence
8.3. The Digital Challenge to Copyright
8.4. Metaphors and Power
8.5. "Invent the age! Invent the metaphor!"
8.6. Sum: Technology and Social Change
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