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Title
How to Fix Copyright.
Author
Patry, William.
Item Type
Book
Description
336 pages.
ISBN
9780190259938 eBook
9780199760091 Print
9780199760091 Print
Summary
The arrival of the Internet was revolutionary, and one of the most tumultuous developments that followed—the upending of the relatively settled world of copyright law—has forced the complete rethink of how rights to a work are allocated and how delivery formats affect an originator's claims to the work. Most of the disputes around novel Internet media delivery systems derive from views on what constitutes a proper understanding of copyright. Who has the right to a work, and to what extent should we protect a rights holder's ability to derive income from it? Is it right to make copyrighted works free of charge? This book offers solutions for improving an increasingly outmoded copyright system. After outlining how we arrived at the current state of dysfunction, the book offers a series of pragmatic fixes that steer a middle course between an overly expansive interpretation of copyright protection and abandoning it altogether. We cannot force people to buy copyrighted works, but at the same time we have to enforce laws against counterfeiting. Most importantly, we have to look at the evidence—what furthers creativity yet does not deny protection to those who need it to create? We should also reject the increasingly strident (and ill-informed) denunciations of delivery systems: Google Book search and DVRs are merely technologies, and are not the problem. The text stresses that we need to recognize that the consumer is king. Law can only solve legal problems, not business problems, and too often we use law to solve business problems.
Note
The arrival of the Internet was revolutionary, and one of the most tumultuous developments that followed—the upending of the relatively settled world of copyright law—has forced the complete rethink of how rights to a work are allocated and how delivery formats affect an originator's claims to the work. Most of the disputes around novel Internet media delivery systems derive from views on what constitutes a proper understanding of copyright. Who has the right to a work, and to what extent should we protect a rights holder's ability to derive income from it? Is it right to make copyrighted works free of charge? This book offers solutions for improving an increasingly outmoded copyright system. After outlining how we arrived at the current state of dysfunction, the book offers a series of pragmatic fixes that steer a middle course between an overly expansive interpretation of copyright protection and abandoning it altogether. We cannot force people to buy copyrighted works, but at the same time we have to enforce laws against counterfeiting. Most importantly, we have to look at the evidence—what furthers creativity yet does not deny protection to those who need it to create? We should also reject the increasingly strident (and ill-informed) denunciations of delivery systems: Google Book search and DVRs are merely technologies, and are not the problem. The text stresses that we need to recognize that the consumer is king. Law can only solve legal problems, not business problems, and too often we use law to solve business problems.
Formatted Contents Note
Acknowledgments
Introduction Unlearning Copyright
1. Why We Need to Fix Our Copyright Laws
2. Replacing a Faith-Based Approach to Copyright with an Evidence-Based Approach
3. What Are Copyright Laws Supposed to Do?
4. The Public Interest
5. Law Is Not the Solution to Business Problems
6. Does Deterrence Work?
7. Abandoning Exclusivity and Getting Paid Instead
8. The Length of Copyright Is Damaging Our Cultural Heritage
9. Reimposing Some Formalities
10. The Moral Panic over Fair Use
11. “The Answer to the Machine Is in the Machine” Is a Really Bad Metaphor
12. Effective Global Copyright Laws
Notes
Index.
Introduction Unlearning Copyright
1. Why We Need to Fix Our Copyright Laws
2. Replacing a Faith-Based Approach to Copyright with an Evidence-Based Approach
3. What Are Copyright Laws Supposed to Do?
4. The Public Interest
5. Law Is Not the Solution to Business Problems
6. Does Deterrence Work?
7. Abandoning Exclusivity and Getting Paid Instead
8. The Length of Copyright Is Damaging Our Cultural Heritage
9. Reimposing Some Formalities
10. The Moral Panic over Fair Use
11. “The Answer to the Machine Is in the Machine” Is a Really Bad Metaphor
12. Effective Global Copyright Laws
Notes
Index.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Patry, William How to Fix Copyright Cary : Oxford University Press,c2012
Published
Annette, Kur; Senftleben, Martin. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Language
English
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