Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 2021
Abstract
Brian Frye's Right of Reattribution proposes a mechanism for loosening the strictures of attribution associated with creative works of authorship and giving the law of attribution a pro-property spin. Authors regularly receive attribution recognizing their authorship role. Frye transforms this norm of attribution into a fully alienable property right. An author would receive original rights of attribution, but those rights could then be sold or transferred to another person seeking accolades. This secondary transfer process is knows as reattribution. Frye recognizes that a right of reattribution would require congressional action since the current scope of attribution rights is limited by the statute as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Dastar.
Recommended Citation
Dennis D. Crouch,
Reattribution, the Poison Pill and Inventorship, 5 Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Review 138
(2021).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/facpubs/1207
