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The Ideology of Fair Use: Xeroxing and Reproductive Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Judith Roof
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Abstract

Looking at the metaphorical similarities between abortion statutes and copyright law reveals reproductive laws’ stake in property ideologies. “Fair use” provisions in copyright law are analogous to abortion rights, delimiting the extent to which a non-owner (one who copies, a mother) can exert control over material “belonging” to another. The similarity suggests that the way to understand abortion fury is as a manifestation of property rights.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Philosophy and Language , Spring 1992 , pp. 63 - 73
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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