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By Thomas Giddens

ISBN-10: 113878799X

ISBN-13: 9781138787995

Establishing the medium of picture fiction as a severe source for interdisciplinary felony experiences, this assortment is the 1st to deal with the intersection of comics and legislation. image fiction has won huge, immense cultural capital and educational curiosity over fresh years. Comics-inspired motion pictures fill our cinemas and superhero item fills the cabinets of supermarkets. briefly, our tradition is suffused with a comic-book aesthetic: as, for instance, the ‘Occupy’ stream appropriates the masks of ‘V’, from the comedian paintings V for Vendetta; and, tragically, as James Holmes’s murderous rampage via a Colorado motion picture theatre, likely sees him styling himself after Batman’s arch-nemesis, the Joker. From mass leisure and consumerism to political activism and violence, we're surrounded via emanations of photo storytelling. in the meantime, the increase of educational disciplines comparable to comics reviews demonstrates that the medium comprises even more intensity than the typical assumption of its simplicity and juvenility may well suggest. Against this historical past, comics supply a huge source for making feel of the modern position and function of legislations. no matter if of their representations of attorneys and the criminal process, their dystopian imaginations, their therapy of problems with justice and social order, or of their superheroic funding within the defense of the blameless and the punishment or trap of these who could damage them, like different narrative types – literature, movie, theatre – picture fiction explores and expresses human lifestyles in all its social, ethical and felony complexity. within the context of a now well-established curiosity in cultural felony experiences, this publication showcases the serious capability of comics and photo fiction as a source for interdisciplinary felony experiences and felony thought.

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11 DC Comics v Towle (n€1). 12 W Cornish, D Llewelyn and T Aplin, Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trademarks and Allied Rights (8th edn, Sweet and Maxwell 2013) 430–34. 17 Another significant element relates to the fixation or capture in a permanent format of the work itself. 18 Without there being some form of capturing of the work, copyright subsistence cannot arise19 and the potential work will not benefit from copyright protection. 21 It is possible that comics in particular benefit from additional artistic copyright due to the images and graphics that are merged with the text-based elements.

Given that comics are protected by copyright, and that UGC can include works of fan fiction, such developments provide broad challenges for copyright. These challenges are exacerbated in light of decisions indicating that comics characters are protectable by copyright in themselves. The Batmobile ‘character’ problem As discussed, copyright protection extends to the expressions of ideas rather than to the ideas themselves. In July€2013, Judge Lew, in a Californian court, decided that the Batmobile was a character and therefore capable of distinct copyright protection, paying scant regard to the question of design rights.

This again blurs the lines between idea and expression, and is likely to prove problematic in subsequent cases. The blurring of ideas – a comic tragedy? The decision relating to the Batmobile is concerning for fans of the Batman series, be it films, comic books or a television series. Fan fiction has to begin somewhere, and that is very often with the original work, and the original expression of a character. If, as indicated in the US cases, characters are protected by copyright, it is highly likely that fans who continue to produce fan fiction based on the leading characters – such as Batman and the Batmobile – will fall foul of copyright laws.

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