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Bonadio, Enrico; Lucchi, Nicola --- "Introduction: setting the scene for non-conventional copyright" [2018] ELECD 860; in Bonadio, Enrico; Lucchi, Nicola (eds), "Non-Conventional Copyright" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 1

Book Title: Non-Conventional Copyright

Editor(s): Bonadio, Enrico; Lucchi, Nicola

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781786434067

Section Title: Introduction: setting the scene for non-conventional copyright

Author(s): Bonadio, Enrico; Lucchi, Nicola

Number of pages: 21

Abstract/Description:

Informal conversations and chats sometimes give rise to new ideas and trigger adventures. This is exactly what happened when we met for a ‘fika’ (Sweden’s ritual coffee break) on a cold February afternoon in Nicola’s university office in the Swedish town of Jonkoping and started talking about bizarre and to some extent esoteric forms of creativity in the fields of art, music, popular culture, technology, science and beyond. The chat took a playful turn from the very beginning. Enrico asked: ‘Nicola, what if more and more graffiti writers start enforcing their copyright against corporations that commercially exploit their tags? . . . And if disc-jockeys decide to complain about party-goers that attend their set and use Shazam [the smartphone application that can identify music] to learn about their tunes and copy the entire compilation? . . . Also, last week I was in a restaurant in East London and had a wonderful and quite eye-catching radish salad. Could the chef claim copyright in such culinary presentation?’. Nicola seemed interested and enthusiastically entered the game: ‘Yeah. That’s intriguing. And what about Michael Jordan’s classic spin move under the basket? Could he protect such an athletic movement? . . . Or could comedians and magicians hold and enforce a valid copyright over their jokes and tricks?’. The chat went on and on.