Download or read book What’s Wrong with Copying? written by Abraham Drassinower and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Drassinower presents a new way to balance the needs of creators and users of authored works. Disentangling copyright theory from its focus on the economic value of a work as a commodity, he views a work instead as a communicative act. Infringement, according to this perspective, is an unauthorized appropriation of another’s speech.