@article{27090,
      recid = {27090},
      author = {Wiseman, Leanne, and Sherman, Brad},
      title = {Copyright and the challenge of the new /},
      pages = {xii, 271 pages :},
      abstract = {"Copyright is not, as is often thought, something that is  periodically extended to cover a new field or medium;  rather, copyright redefines itself whenever its efficacy is  challenged. While many factors have contributed to this  process, one of the most consistent has been the challenges  created by new technologies. The contributing authors build  upon this insight to show that copyright law is, and has  always been, a creature of technology. Each chapter focuses  on a specific technology or group of technologies -  photography, telegraphy, the phonogram, radio, film, the  photocopier, the tape player, television, and computer  programs - emphasizing the changes that each technology  instigated and the challenges and opportunities it created.  Perhaps the most profound insight of this extraordinary  book is the authors' claim - ably supported in a series of  intriguing chapters - that the way the law responds and  reacts to new technologies is always mediated by the  political, social, economic, and cultural environment in  which the interaction occurs. For example, these chapters  describe and explain how: statutory schemes of remuneration  arose from failures to effectively police new forms of  piracy; persistent litigation and lobbying by copyright  owners forces legislatures and courts to devise new laws;  content (e.g., sporting events) generates new rules of  access to broadcasts; and 'fair copying' (e.g., by  libraries) is the necessary exception that proves the rule.  As well as providing insights into the ways that copyright  law interacted with old technologies when they were new,  the book also offers important insights into problems and  issues currently confronting copyright law and policy such  as the appropriate scope of copyright and the relation  between copyright and the public interest"--P. [4] of  cover.},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/27090},
}