Scary Monsters: Hybrids, Mashups, and Other Illegitimate Children

Authors

Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown University Law CenterFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Abstract

Human creativity, like human reproduction, always makes new out of old in ways that copyright law has not fully recognized. The genre of vidding, a type of remix made mostly by women, demonstrates how creativity can be disruptive, and how that disruptiveness is often tied to ideas about sex and gender. The most frightening of our modern creations—the Frankenstein’s monsters that seem most appropriative and uncanny in light of old copyright doctrine—are good indicators of what our next generation of creativity may look like, especially if creators’ diversity in gender, race, and economic background is taken into account.

Publication Citation

86 Notre Dame L. Rev. 2133-2156 (2011)

Scholarly Commons Citation

Tushnet, Rebecca, "Scary Monsters: Hybrids, Mashups, and Other Illegitimate Children" (2011). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 735.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/735