Screen Library(Re)structuring copyright : a comprehensive path to international copyright reform /
In this bold and persuasive work Daniel Gervais, one of the world's leading thinkers on the subject of intellectual property, argues that the international copyright system is in need of a root and branch rethink. As the Internet alters the world in which copyright operates beyond all recogniti...
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Edward Elgar Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | Cheltenam, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Elgar monographs in intellectual property law
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| Summary: |
In this bold and persuasive work Daniel Gervais, one of the world's leading thinkers on the subject of intellectual property, argues that the international copyright system is in need of a root and branch rethink. As the Internet alters the world in which copyright operates beyond all recognition, a world increasingly defined by the might of online intermediaries and spawning a generation who are simultaneously authors, users and re-users of creative works, the structure of copyright in its current form is inadequate and unfit for purpose. This ambitious and far-reaching book sets out to dia |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781785369490 (hardback) : 1785369490 (hardback) : 9781785369506 (ebook) 1785369504 (ebook) |
| Index Number: | K1420 |
| CLC: | D913.4 |
| Call Number: | D913.4/G385 |
| Contents: | Copyright in common law jurisdictions -- The International emergence of author's rights -- The three-step test -- Protection thresholds : originality and fixation -- Vicarious and participative creativity -- A place for authors -- A place for users -- The quadrants of authorship -- Structuring the right(s) -- Structuring exceptions and limitations -- Collective and extended licensing -- Formalitites -- Copyright and development -- Epilogue : towards a New Berne Convention : Act of the Berne Convention for the protection of Literary and Artistic Works. |