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It's complicated: copyright law and chaos theory

2012; Oxford University Press; Volume: 7; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/jiplp/jps119

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F. J. Davey,

Copyright and Intellectual Property

‘A book may be good for nothing; or there may be only one thing in it worth knowing; are we to read it all through?’ (Samuel Johnson) This section is dedicated to the review of ideas, articles, books, films and other media. It will include replies (and rejoinders) to articles, the evaluation of new ideas or proposals, and reviews of books and articles both directly and indirectly related to intellectual property law. I am sure that, to many people, copyright law seems ‘complicated’ but this book is not about the kind of ‘complexity’ that ‘complex copyright’ is about. It is nearly twenty years since ‘chaos theory’ intruded sufficiently into the mainstream, when it featured not only in Stoppard's Arcadia but was the professional interest of Jeff Goldblum's dinosaur-dodging mathematician in Jurassic Park. Chaos theory was born in the late 19th century when mathematicians such as James Clerk...