James Meese - Authors, Users, and Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity

The ideas that sit at the heart of this book emerged from my dissertation. They only came to fruition thanks to an incredibly supportive supervision team consisting of Esther Milne, Ramon Lobato, and Jock Given. I thank them for the invaluable mentorship they provided throughout my doctoral studies.

Thanks to Isabella Alexander, Christopher Comerford, Angela Daly, Liz Giuffre, and Katrina Schlunke for suggestions and comments on chapter drafts. I am particularly grateful to Kathy Bowrey, who read numerous drafts and regularly challenged me to produce better work; Alan McKee, who generously read an early draft of this book; and Tim Laurie, who posed a series of productive conceptual questions that helped me refine my argument toward the end of the writing process. I also thank Eva Hemmungs Wirtn, who invited me to contribute to a range of collaborative interdisciplinary endeavors that allowed me to think more broadly about the role and function of copyright. I also extend my gratitude to the anonymous reviewers of the proposal and manuscript. They all offered generous and considered feedback, which was critical in shaping the approach and direction of this monograph.

I am lucky to work among a vibrant and inspiring scholarly community broadly focused on the study of intellectual property, media, and culture. Instead of offering a list of names, I simply want to express my gratitude to all of my colleagues for the advice and friendship they have offered along the way. I am particularly indebted to my colleagues at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and at my former institutionsSwinburne University of Technology and the University of Melbournefor their collegiality and support. I also thank the excellent team at the UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Office, Wes Mountain for his excellent diagrams, and Nick Jarvis for his assistance with some last minute corrections. I am especially grateful to all the students I have taught at UTS for their willingness to discuss ideas, challenge my thinking, update my knowledge, and make me laugh.

Thanks to Michael Zimmer and Laura DeNardis for their initial enthusiasm, Virginia Crossman for her careful editing, and Gita Devi Manaktala, Emily Taber, Jess Hernndez, and Susan Buckley at MIT Press for all of their assistance and advice.

For their love, encouragement, and laughter, I thank my parents, my two awesome sibz, and all of my friends. Finally, I want to thank my partner Caitlin for her incessant interest in this project, for offering (and sometimes demanding) to read a chapter draft, and for keeping up the fight when so many would have given up. Youre the best.

I acknowledge the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney, who generously provided financial support that assisted in the preparation of this manuscript.

I also wish to acknowledge SAGE and Litwin Books for allowing some previously published material to be incorporated into this book. Some parts of this book draw on the following articles:

Meese, James. The Pirate Imaginary and the Potential of the Authorial Pirate, in Piracy: Leakages from Modernity, edited by Martin Fredriksson and James Avanitakis, 1937. Sacramento, CA: Litwin Books, 2014.

Meese, James. User Production and Law Reform: A Socio-Legal Critique of User Creativity. Media, Culture & Society 37, no. 5 (2015): 753767.