Authors in Court: Scenes from the Theater of Copyright

Through a series of vivid case studies, Mark Rose ’61 charts the 300-year-long dance between authorship and copyright that has shaped each institution’s response to changing social norms of identity, privacy, and celebrity. Authors in Court: Scenes from the Theater of Copyright explores how authors’ presentations in court are often influenced by prevailing concepts of self-respectability and how even judges are not immune to the reputation and standing of the authors who appear before them.