Jefferies, Janis K. and Kember, Sarah, eds. 2019. Whose Book is it Anyway?: A View from elsewhere on publishing, copyright and creativity. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. ISBN 9781783746484 [Edited Book]

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Whose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as artist’s perspectives, writer’s perspectives, feminist, and international perspectives – that are too often marginalized or elided altogether.

The diverse range of contributors take various approaches, from the scholarly and the essayistic to the graphic, to explore the future of publishing based on their experiences as publishers, artists, writers and academics. Considering issues such as intellectual property, copyright and comics, digital publishing and remixing, and what it means (not) to say one is an author, these vibrant essays urge us to view central aspects of writing and publishing in a new light.

Whose Book is it Anyway? is a timely and varied collection of essays. It asks us to reconceive our understanding of publishing, copyright and open access, and it is essential reading for anyone invested in the future of publishing.

Item Type:	Edited Book
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0159
Keywords:	publishing, creativity, copyright, open access, technology, feminism
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Date:	March 2019
Item ID:	26824
Date Deposited:	03 Sep 2019 14:30
Last Modified:	03 Sep 2019 14:30
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/26824

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