Regardless of what kind of work is being protected, the gender of the work’s creator bears more on its protectability than any copyright statute facially indicates. Harding discusses the experience of women navigating the copyright law regime and the decision in Warhol v. Goldsmith to recommend an injection of moral rights to the current copyright jurisprudence. By revisiting the history of copyright law to reaffirm its problematic implications concerning gender equality, Harding brings a call to action for continued research at this nexus to affirm the rights of original women creators.
Nora K. Harding, A Feminist Perspective on Copyright and Andy Warhol Found. v. Goldsmith, 28 J. Gender, Race & Just. 521 (2025).