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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24892| Appears in Collections: | Law and Philosophy Book Chapters and Sections |
| Title: | Holy Blurring of Core Copyright Principles, Batmobile! |
| Author(s): | Barker, Kim |
| Contact Email: | kimberley.barker@stir.ac.uk |
| Editor(s): | Giddens, T |
| Citation: | Barker K (2015) Holy Blurring of Core Copyright Principles, Batmobile!. In: Giddens T (ed.) Graphic Justice: Intersections of Law and Comics. London: Routledge, pp. 19-35. https://www.routledge.com/Graphic-Justice-Intersections-of-Comics-and-Law/Giddens/p/book/9781138787995 |
| Keywords: | Law comics culture copyright |
| Issue Date: | 2015 |
| Date Deposited: | 10-Oct-2016 |
| Abstract: | This work discusses these issues in light of a recent decision protecting the Batmobile as a character in its own right, before evaluating the extent to which ‘character’ receives copyright protection. Indeed, this chapter argues that granting copyright protection to the Batmobile as a character is absurd—an absurdity that can be seen in the fact that using ‘Batmobile’ as one would any other character’s name does not sit happily in a sentence: see the title of this chapter for an example. |
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| URL: | https://www.routledge.com/Graphic-Justice-Intersections-of-Comics-and-Law/Giddens/p/book/9781138787995 |
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