Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-448) and index.

Inspiration or infringement : the plagiarist in court / Isabella Alexander -- Nineteenth-century Anglo-US copyright relations : the language of piracy versus the moral high ground / Catherine Seville -- Language, practice, and history / Adrian Johns -- The metamorphosis of contrefaçon in French copyright law / David Lefranc ; translated by Sébastien Oddos -- A common lawyer's perspective on contrefaçon / Jane C. Ginsburg -- Copyright infringement, 'free-riding' and the lifeworld / Anne Barron -- Copyright and the limits of law-and-economics analysis / Jonathan Aldred -- 'Substantial similarity of expression' in copyright infringement actions : a linguistic perspective / Alan Durant -- Refining notions of idea and expression through linguistic analysis / Graeme B. Dinwoodie -- Copyright, piracy and software / Jon Crowcroft -- Of plots, puddings and draught-excluders : the law as it applies to the Infringement of computer programs / Jennifer Davis -- Measuring text reuse in the news industry / Paul Clough -- Reflections on measuring text reuse from a copyright law perspective / Tanya Aplin -- Unoriginal genius : plagiarism and the construction of 'romantic' authorship -- Nick Groom -- The genius and the labourer : authorship in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century copyright law / Isabella Alexander -- Piracy and authorship in contemporary art and the artistic commonwealth / Daniel McClean -- Copyright's imperfect republic and the artistic commonwealth / Jonathan Griffiths -- Reggae open source : how the absence of copyright enabled the emergence of popular music in Jamaica / Jason Toynbee -- 'Free-riding on the riddim'? : open source, copyright law and reggae music in Jamaica / Johnson Okpaluba -- Copyright infringement : a criminological perspective / Lorraine Gelsthorpe -- Towards a clearer understanding of the file-sharing phenomenon? : comments on a criminological perspective / Shira Perlmutter.