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Jason Toynbee

Jason Toynbee is Lecturer at the Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool, and author of Making Popular Music: Musicians, Creativity and Institutions (Arnold, 2000). He is also the author of Creating Problems: Social Authorship, Copyright and the Production of Culture (2001), available at £3 or $5 from the Pavis Centre for Social and Cultural Research, The Open University.

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Beyond romance and repression: social authorship in a capitalist age

The imposition of punitive new intellectual property regimes represents a corporate assault on public culture. The connection between capitalism and copyright helps us to understand why it is happening; while the reality of ‘social authorship’ offers a way to open up new possibilities for creative workers in a reformed copyright system.

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