Media practices and copyright law: Social and legal framework for the cooperative and derivative creation of copyrighted works in the digital environment (B07)

• Subject Area: Theatre and Media Studies ; Principles of Law and Jurisprudence
• Term: from 2016 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 262513311

Media practices of the derivative and cooperative creation as well as the publication of copyrighted works are leading increasingly towards a loss of acceptance resulting in a crisis of legitimacy in copyright law, particularly in the digital environment. Inspired by the Anglo-American empirical legal studies, the research project links media ethnography and motivation analysis with the task to shape the law. In the subject area of fan fiction, the project is establishing the essential framework conditions for the cooperative creation of works as basis for a proposal for a modern copyright law depicting the current realities in media.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1187: Media of Cooperation
• Applicant Institution: Universität Siegen
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Dagmar Hoffmann; Professorin Dr. Nadine Klass