Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-20-2025
ISSN
2330-1295
Publisher
JOTWELL
Language
en-US
Abstract
In this essay, Abraham Drassinower updates the argument in his 2015 book What’s Wrong With Copying (Harvard University Press) with an elaboration of the nature of copyright’s public domain: it is a domain of unauthorized yet lawful copying. As in his book, Drassinower explains that the public domain is not properly understood as a problem of balancing between copyright’s public benefits and private rewards. Instead, he understands the public domain as part of authorship and thus inseparable from copyright’s construction.
Recommended Citation
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(2025).
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