This book continues the exploration of the role, function and theoretical basis of copyright law examined in the first four volumes. New Directions in Copyright Law, Volume 5, offers valuable insights into simulating international research and debate about the future of the copyright system. The international and multidisciplinary core of scholars in this book focus on two themes: copyright and the new technologies; and copyright, corporate power and human rights. This book should be read by anyone interested in the future of copyright, regardless of discipline.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Preface Part I: Copyright, Corporate Power and Human Rights 1. Database Sui Generis Right: The Need to Take the Public’s Right to Information and Freedom of Expression into Account 2. Author’s Right, Copyright and the Public’s Right to Information: A Complex Relationship (Rethinking Copyright in the Light of Fundamental Rights) 3. Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Matrix of Copyright, Cultural Diversity and Human Rights 4. Comparative Advertising: The Conflicting Claims of Copyright, Unfair Competition and Freedom of Expression 5. Political Economy of Intellectual Property Policy-Making: Theory and Practice – An Observation from a Realistic (and Slightly Cynical) Perspective Part II: Copyright and the New Technologies 6. Copyright Law: A Stakeholders’ Palimpsest 7. How Technology Changes the Scope, Strength and Usefulness of Copyright: Revisiting the ‘Economic Rationales’ Underpinning Copyright Law in the New Economy 8. Fertile Ground: Law, Innovation and Creative Technologies 9. Owning Form, Sharing Content: Natural-Right Copyright and Digital Environment Index