Copyright law

Copyright law is commonly described as carrying out a balancing act between the interests of authors or owners and those of the public.

The chemicals, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology industries worldwide rely upon being able to patent inventions in order to protect investment in research and development, and to reap commercial rewards.

This book is a research guide and bibliography of Parliamentary material, including the Old Scottish Parliament and the Old Irish Parliament, relating to patents and inventions from the early seventeenth century to 1976.

This book explores the relationship between intellectual property law and competition law, proposing a harmonious equilibrium in the dynamic landscape of evolving technology.

Ten years after the Human Genome Project's completion the life sciences stand in a moment of uncertainty, transition, and contestation.

"e;Brazil is one of the world's most productive crucibles for new ideas and practices in innovation and collaboration.

Im August 2024 trat mit der KI-VO ein umfassendes KI-Gesetz mit signifikanten Folgen für Zivilgesellschaft und Wirtschaft in Kraft.

This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone.

As the publishing, film and music industries are dominated by Big Media conglomerates, there is often recourse to simplistic ideological and conspiratorial readings of industry dynamics.

Diese Festschrift ist dem bedeutenden Anwalt gewidmet.

Based on empirical research, this innovative book explores issues of performativity and authorship in the theatre world under copyright law and addresses several inter-connected questions: who is the author and first owner of a dramatic work?

Ideas are the fuel of industry and the entertainment business.

The book takes a look at the six most important current topics arising from copyright law in the information society, and for each topic provides an in-depth introduction that compares the approaches taken in Europe and the US.

Der Schutz der Persönlichkeit vor kommerzieller Ausbeutung stellt sich als eine der größten Herausforderungen der gegenwärtigen Rechtswissenschaften dar.

With the guidance of this book, academic librarians wishing to provide print, electronic, and streaming media (music and film) course reserve services for their campus communities can do so in compliance with U.

In this deep dive into the Jamaican music world filled with the voices of creators, producers, and consumers, Larisa Kingston Mann-DJ, media law expert, and ethnographer-identifies how a culture of collaboration lies at the heart of Jamaican creative practices and legal personhood.

This book examines the role that intellectual property plays in fostering innovation within knowledge societies, with a particular focus on the role of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence tools.

Access and Control in Digital Humanities explores a range of important questions about who controls data, who is permitted to reproduce or manipulate data, and what sorts of challenges digital humanists face in making their work accessible and useful.

Access and Control in Digital Humanities explores a range of important questions about who controls data, who is permitted to reproduce or manipulate data, and what sorts of challenges digital humanists face in making their work accessible and useful.

Aussage und Wert eines Kunstwerkes hängen in besonderem Maße von der Künstlerpersönlichkeit ab, mit der man es verbindet.

This book examines the challenges posed to Australian copyright law by streaming, from the end-user perspective.

Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into context, asking what it is about learning that helped to create the concept even as it gave the products of knowledge a different legal and economic standing than other sorts of property.

Copyright law regulates creativity.

This book focuses on digital museums in the context of Vietnam and contributes to global discussions on the development of digital museum offerings needed to meet audience demands, requirements for sustainable digitisation methods for cultural heritage, demands for the development of intellectual property protection for the digital environment, and shows ways for national governments to support digital museums.

This book examines why copyright exceptions are necessary and the forces that have shaped the UK legislation.

This book considers a new approach to online copyright infringement.

IP law has evolved from being a little pool to a big ocean.

In Copy This Book!

This book discusses copyright protection of unpublished works including letters, diaries, manuscripts, photographs, memoranda, sketches, private journals, government records and drafts intended for future publication.

Ist die Fotografie heute aus dem Kunstmarkt nicht mehr wegzudenken, ergeben sich doch spezifische Schwierigkeiten bei der Bestimmung ihres Originals.

The Routledge Handbook of EU Copyright Law provides a definitive survey of copyright harmonization in the European Union, capturing the essential and relevant issues of this relatively recent phenomenon.

The legal protection of geographical indications (GIs) is characterised by a variety of approaches which translates the many objectives attached to them.

Exploring the debate over the benefits of legal protection for fashion design, this book focuses on how a combination of minimal legal protections for design, evolving social norms, digital technology, and market forces can promote innovation and creativity in a business known for its fast-paced remixing and borrowing.

The first edition of this book in 2002 was the first UK text to examine digital copyright together with related areas such as performers' rights, moral rights, database rights and competition law as a subject in its own right.

This book evaluates issues and challenges emerging from the interaction between intellectual property (IP) and new technologies, namely artificial intelligence (AI), big data, social media, internet of things (IoT), metaverse, blockchain, video gaming, and voice cloning.

Multi-Sided Music Platforms and the Law explores the legal and regulatory frameworks surrounding copyright protection, competition and privacy concerns arising from the way multi-sided platforms use copyright-protected content in digital advertising.

Brings together experts to provide the first comprehensive analysis of issues related to copyright in street art and graffiti.