Conceptions in the Code : How Metaphors Explain Legal Challenges in Digital Times
Author
Summary, in English
Stefan Larsson's Conceptions in the Code contributes invaluably to socio-legal analysis and conceptual metaphor theory. By examining cases of digital copyright, Larsson elucidates the role that metaphor plays when law is accommodating technological change, displaying both conceptual path-dependence as well as non-legislative developments in law.
Analyses draw from conceptual studies of property specific to intellectual property. By using Karl Renner's account, Larsson demonstrates how the property regime of copyright is the projection of an older regime of control onto a new set of digital social relations. Further, through an investigation of the concept of “copy” in copyright, as well as the metaphorical battle of defining the BitTorrent site “The Pirate Bay” in the Swedish court case with its founders, Larsson shows the historical and embodied dependence of digital phenomena in law, and how normative aspects of the source concept also stain the target domain.
Larsson draws from empirical studies on file sharing and historical expressions of the conceptualization of law, revealing the cultural biases of file sharing and law. Law is thereby shown to depend largely on metaphors of embodiment. The book engages the conceptual and regulatory struggles of a multitude of contemporary socio-digital phenomena in addition to issues of copyright and file sharing, including big data and the oft-praised “openness” of digital innovation.
Analyses draw from conceptual studies of property specific to intellectual property. By using Karl Renner's account, Larsson demonstrates how the property regime of copyright is the projection of an older regime of control onto a new set of digital social relations. Further, through an investigation of the concept of “copy” in copyright, as well as the metaphorical battle of defining the BitTorrent site “The Pirate Bay” in the Swedish court case with its founders, Larsson shows the historical and embodied dependence of digital phenomena in law, and how normative aspects of the source concept also stain the target domain.
Larsson draws from empirical studies on file sharing and historical expressions of the conceptualization of law, revealing the cultural biases of file sharing and law. Law is thereby shown to depend largely on metaphors of embodiment. The book engages the conceptual and regulatory struggles of a multitude of contemporary socio-digital phenomena in addition to issues of copyright and file sharing, including big data and the oft-praised “openness” of digital innovation.
Department/s
- Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
- Lund University Internet Institute (LUii)
- Real Estate Science
- MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World
Publishing year
2017-02-23
Language
English
Publication/Series
Oxford Studies in Language and Law
Document type
Book
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Topic
- Law and Society
- General Language Studies and Linguistics
- Engineering and Technology
Keywords
- technology and social change
- metaphor
- metaphor theory
- conceptual metaphor theory
- cognitive theory
- path dependence
- conceptual path dependence
- skeuomorphs
- skeuomorphism
- copyright
- intellectual property
- file sharing
- piracy
- the pirate bay
- platforms
- sociology of law
- framing
- socio-legal research
- law & society
- Lakoff
- Lessig
- creativity
- innovation
- legitimacy
- legality
- social norms
- sociolegal analysis
- conceptual metaphor theory
- copyright
- intellectual property
- metaphor
- file-sharing
- the pirate bay
- path dependence
- skeumorphs
- skeuomorphs
- social norms
- sociology of law
- cognitive theory
- embodiment
- law
- media consumers
- platform
- Karl Renner
- openness
- big data
- liquidity
- conceptual path dependence
Status
Published
Project
- Legal Challenges in a Digital Context
- The Openness Metaphor - Contemporary Understandings of the Digital
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 9780190650384