Copyright in the cultural industries / edited by Ruth Towse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Towse, Ruth, 1943-

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Copyright.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A great deal has been written on the theoretical aspects of copyright and the cultural industries but less so on the applied side - how copyright law works in practice. How do lawyers, firms and artists manage and administer copyright and what economic and legal problems does this raise? In recent times in particular, technological inventions appear to have outpaced the development of copyright law. This volume addresses these issues and looks at the serious implications for copyright policy in the future. Several of the authors question the efficacy of copyright, which is increasingly regarde

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1. Copyright and the cultural industries: the policy-maker's view; 2. Copyright, borrowed images and appropriation art: am economic approach; 3. Choice of law issues in relation to copyright; 4. Copyright and freedom of expression: an economic analysis; 5. Copyright in the digital age: the economic rationale re-examined; 6. Copyright compulsory licensing and incentives; 7. Copyright and corporate power; 8. The abolition of copyrights: better for artists, Third World countries and the public domain

10. Music licensing in the digital age9. Copyright societies do not administer individual property rights: the incoherence of institutional traditions in Germany and the UK; 11. Copyright protection, appropriability and new cultural behaviour; 12. Performers in the digital era: empirical evidence from Japan; 13. Creativity without a copyright: music production in Vienna in the late eighteenth century; 14. Exploiting museum images; 15. Copyright in the digital age: opportunities and drawbacks for scientific research; 16. The problems of authors' property rights administration in Russia; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-21637-X

9786613216373

1-84376-541-1

OCLC:

52342973