The seventh edition of Understanding Copyright is a major revision of this classic student treatise. In addition to including the latest case law developments, this edition incorporates the Music Modernization Act of 2018. The seventh edition covers all aspects of the MMA, a daz…
Introduction / Isabella Alexander and H. Tomas Tomás Gómez-Arostegui -- Copyright history in the advocate's arsenal / Barbara Lauriat -- Law, aesthetics and copyright historiography : a critical reading of the genealogies of Martha Woodmansee and Mark Rose / Kathy Bowrey -- The …
Publisher's description: There has been an explosion of interest in recent years regarding the origin and of intellectual property law. The study of copyright history, in particular, has grown remarkably in the last twenty years, with a flurry of activity in the last ten. Crucia…
1. The thorny issue of balancing rights -- 2. Copyright and file-sharing regulation in the US, Canada and Italy -- 3. Personal data protection legislation -- 4. Copyright vs. data protection : case studies -- 5. Conclusions : conceptual balancing Federica Giovanella examines th…
What if we could reimagine copyright?
"The proposed book will present an interdisciplinary study of the history of copyright law with a focus on the historical development of the object of protection. The book analyses British, French, and Danish copyright law in order to examine the Anglo-American copyright system,…
The concept of the cultural commons has become increasingly important for legal studies. Within this field, however, it is a contested concept: at once presented as a sphere for creativity, democratic access and freedom of speech, but one that denies property rights and misappro…
"[This book] surveys and analyzes the legal doctrines affecting copyright practice around the world, in both transactional and litigation settings. It provides a step-by-step methodology for advising clients involved in exploiting creative works in or from foreign countries ... …