How to fix copyright / William Patry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patry, William F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Copyright.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The arrival of the Internet was revolutionary, and one of the most tumultuous developments that flowed from it--the upending of the relatively settled world of copyright law--has forced us to completely rethink how rights to a work are allocated and how delivery formats affect an originator's claims to the work. Most of the disputes swirling around novel Internet media delivery systems, from Napster to Youtube to the Google Book Project, derive from our views on what constitutes a proper understanding of copyright. Who has the right to a work, and to what extent should we protect a rights hold

Contents:

Replacing the faith-based approach to copyright

What are copyright laws supposed to do?

The public interest and the public domain

You can compete with free

Does deterrence work?

Abandoning exclusivity and getting paid instead

How long should copyright last?

The renewal requirement

The moral panic over fair use

Effective global copyright laws.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-991291-2

0-19-025993-0

1-283-42807-5

9786613428073

0-19-992111-3

OCLC:

768319476