New Directions in Copyright Law

by Fiona Macmillan

Overview

This book continues the exploration of the role, function and theoretical basis of copyright law examined in the first four volumes.


New Directions in Copyright Law, Volume 5, offers valuable insights into simulating international research and debate about the future of the copyright system. The international and multidisciplinary core of scholars in this book focus on two themes: copyright and the new technologies; and copyright, corporate power and human rights. This book should be read by anyone interested in the future of copyright, regardless of discipline.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845422646
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	10/28/2007
Series:	New Directions in Copyright Law Series
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Edited by Fiona Macmillan, School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Table of Contents

Contents:


Preface

Fiona Macmillan


PART I: COPYRIGHT, CORPORATE POWER AND HUMAN RIGHTS

1. Database Sui Generis Right: The Need to Take the Public’s Right to Information and Freedom of Expression into Account

Estelle Derclaye


2. Author’s Right, Copyright and the Public’s Right to Information: A Complex Relationship (Rethinking Copyright in the Light of Fundamental Rights)

Christophe Geiger


3. Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Matrix of Copyright, Cultural Diversity and Human Rights

Christoph Beat Graber


4. Comparative Advertising: The Conflicting Claims of Copyright, Unfair Competition and Freedom of Expression

Jonathan Griffiths


5. Political Economy of Intellectual Property Policy-Making: Theory and Practice – An Observation from a Realistic (and Slightly Cynical) Perspective

Meir Perez Pugatch


PART II: COPYRIGHT AND THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES

6. Copyright Law: A Stakeholders’ Palimpsest

Uma Suthersanen


7. How Technology Changes the Scope, Strength and Usefulness of Copyright: Revisiting the ‘Economic Rationales’ Underpinning Copyright Law in the New Economy

Birgitte Andersen


8. Fertile Ground: Law, Innovation and Creative Technologies

Kathy Bowrey


9. Owning Form, Sharing Content: Natural-Right Copyright and Digital Environment

Maurizio Borghi


Index

Editorial Reviews

‘A richly diverse and interdisciplinary collection of studies of modern copyright, drawing not only on law but also on insights drawn from history, economics, philosophy and political theory. The importance of human rights for copyright and IPRs generally emerges clearly from the first group of papers, while the easy assumption that copyright develops in response to new technologies is significantly challenged in the second group. An international cast of authors ensures that the coverage is global, while never losing sight of the different ways in which particular issues play out in local contexts.’

Hector MacQueen

‘This is an exceptional collection of scholarly contemporary thoughts on the future directions of copyright law. . . The contributors to this volume come from many jurisdictions and bring with them their respective rich backgrounds and experiences in copyright law. The result is an enlightening collection of papers.’

Yee Fen Lim

‘Every one of the first five volumes in Edward Elgar’s New Directions in Copyright Law series has been warmly welcomed by the IPKat and this, the sixth edition, is no exception. . . this series has turned regular thinking on copyright inside-out and upside-down.’

IPKat.com

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