Originality in EU copyright : full harmonisation through case law / Eleonora Rosati.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosati, Eleonora.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Copyright--European Union countries.

Copyright.

Intellectual property infringement--European Union countries.

Intellectual property infringement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Full harmonisation of the copyright laws of EU member states has long been a holy grail for copyright lawyers, but with the reality thus far being only limited harmonisation resulting from ad-hoc legislative interventions, there are serious questions over the feasibility and indeed desirability of this goal. Notwithstanding, as this book makes eloquently clear, whilst legislative initiatives have been limited, the CJEU has been acting proactively, establishing through its decisional practice the de facto harmonization of an important principle of copyright: the originality requirement. Through

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Table of cases (in chronological order); Table of EU/EC/EEC legislation (in chronological order); Table of EU/EC policy documents (in chronological order); Introduction; 1. The challenges of EU copyright: 'United in Diversity'1 - Does it work?; 2. Originality as a policy tool: Shaping the breadth of protection; 3. Originality in a work, or a work of originality: The effects of the Infopaq decision; 4. The CJEU goes ahead: The decisions in Murphy, Painer, Football Datacoand SAS

5. Challenging the UK understanding of copyright: Originality and subject-matter categorization at the forefront of the debate6. The future of copyright at the EU level: The shape of harmonization; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2013).

ISBN:

1-78254-894-7

OCLC:

862049947