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14 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 551 (2006)
Fair Use and the Fairer Sex: Gender, Feminism, and Copyright Law

handle is hein.journals/ajgsp14 and id is 559 raw text is: FAIR USE AND THE FAIRER SEX: GENDER, FEMINISM, AND COPYRIGHT LAW ANN BARTOW* In troduction ......................................................................................... 55 1 I. Gender and Copyright Law .............................................................. 554 II. Fair Use, Fairness, and Gender ....................................................... 559 III. Feminism and Copyright Law ........................................................ 564 A. Should the Explicit Substantive Coverage of Copyright Law be Expanded? ..................................................................... 565 B. Should The Application of Existing Copyright Law Be A ltered ? ............................................................................... 566 C. Should Women Increasingly Commodify Their Creative Output Through Current Copyright Law? ........................ 569 IV. Injecting Gender and Feminism into the Cultural Copyright D iscou rse .................................................................................... 569 A. W om en as Authors .................................................................... 570 B. W om en as Interm ediaries ......................................................... 578 C. W om en as Consum ers ............................................................... 580 C on clusion ........................................................................................... 583 INTRODUCTION Copyright laws are written and enforced to help certain groups of people, largely male, assert and retain control over the resources generated by creative productivity. Consequently, the copyright * Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the IP/Gender: The Unmapped Connections Symposium at American University's Washington College of Law on April 15, 2005. The author thanks Peter Jaszi, Ann Shalleck, Christine Haight Farley, Victoria Phillips, Josh Sarnoff, and The American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law for encouraging this research and the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic for helping to support it (with profound thanks to Pam Samuelson and Bob Glushko for their generosity and commitment to social justice). This article is dedicated to Casey Bartow-McKenney and to feminist legal scholars everywhere. 551

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