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Exploiting images and image collections in the new media : gold mine or legal minefield? / edited by Barbara Hoffman.
1999
N 711 HOF.E
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Title
Exploiting images and image collections in the new media : gold mine or legal minefield? / edited by Barbara Hoffman.
Description
xxv, 397 pages : forms ; 24 cm.
ISBN
9041197214
9789041197214
9789041197214
Alternate Call Number
N 711 HOF.E
Summary
"This book takes as its primary focus the copyright and other intellectual property issues which arise out of the commercial exploitation and digitisation of images. In particular, the nature of digital images makes more evident the legal, ethical and practical problems that are as yet unresolved in the print media. Fourteen articles written by prominent intellectual property lawyers and government officials discuss legal, policy and practical issues in the protection and commercial exploitation of images and image collections."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Intellectual property issues in the creation and use of digital images; Copyright issues in the use of visual images in the new media; A picture is worth a thousand words: US intellectual property issues in the exploitation of visual images in the new media; Protection and management of copyright and neighbouring rights in the digital era; Use of images for commercial purposes: copyright issues under Malaysian laws; Legal protection of digital works in Japan; Museums and digital image archives and the proposed European directive on the harmonization of copyright: a UK perspective; Interactive access and images - can copyright adapt?; Copyright and other intellectual property issues in the use of motion picture archives, photo archives and museum collections in the new media: a museum perspective; Difficulties of managing copyrights, image and property rights to digitized works under french law; The protection of museum collections of film and photo archives in Germany after the implementation of the European database directive into German law; The law of webcasting and digital music delivery; Music: licences, permission forms, and releases in the digital age; Intellectual property and recorded sound: goldmine and minefield.
Series
International Bar Association series.
Published
London, U.K. : Kluwer Law International, 1999.
Language
English
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Review
"This book takes as its primary focus the copyright and other intellectual property issues which arise out of the commercial exploitation and digitisation of images. In particular, the nature of digital images makes more evident the legal, ethical and practical problems that are as yet unresolved in the print media. Fourteen articles written by prominent intellectual property lawyers and government officials discuss legal, policy and practical issues in the protection and commercial exploitation of images and image collections."--Jacket.