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(Re)structuring copyright : a comprehensive path to international copyright reform / Daniel J. Gervais.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gervais, Daniel J., author.
- Series:
- Elgar Monographs in Intellectual Property Law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Copyright.
- Copyright, International.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (378 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.
- 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 diagn --Source other than Library of Congress.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78536-950-4
- 9781785369506 ebook
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