This book brings together leading copyright scholars and the field's foremost authorities to consider the critical role of copyright law in shaping the complex social, economic, and political interaction critical for cultural productivity and human flourishing. The book addresses defining issues facing copyright law today, including justifications for copyright law's limitations and exceptions (L & Es), the role of authors in copyright, users' rights, fair use politics and reform, the three-step test in European copyright law, the idea/expression principle with respect to functional works, limits on the use of L & Es in scientific innovation, and L & Es as a tool for economic development in international copyright law. The book also presents case studies on the historical development of the concept of 'neighboring rights' and on Harvard Law School's pioneering model of global copyright education, made possible by the exercise of L & Es across national borders.
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This book brings together leading copyright scholars and the field's foremost authorities to consider the critical role of copyright law in shaping the complex social, economic, and political interaction critical for cultural productivity and human flourishing. The book addresses defining issues facing copyright law today, including justifications for copyright law's limitations and exceptions (L & Es), the role of authors in copyright, users' rights, fair use politics and reform, the three-step test in European copyright law, the idea/expression principle with respect to functional works, limits on the use of L & Es in scientific innovation, and L & Es as a tool for economic development in international copyright law. The book also presents case studies on the historical development of the concept of 'neighboring rights' and on Harvard Law School's pioneering model of global copyright education, made possible by the exercise of L & Es across national borders.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Justifications for copyright limitations and exceptions / Pamela Samuelson The authors place in the future of copyright / Jane C. Ginsburg Fetishizing copies / Jessica Litman Copyright in a digital ecosystem: a user-rights approach / Niva Elkin-Koren The Canadian copyright story: how Canada improbably became the world leader on users' rights in copyright law / Michael Geist Is copyright reform possible? lessons from the Hargreaves review / James Boyle Fair use and its politics at home and abroad / Justin Hughes Flexible copyright: can EU authors right accommodate fair use? / P. Bernt Hugenholtz Lessons from copyright / William W. FisherIII Rights on the border: the Berne convention and neighboring rights / Sam Ricketson How Oracle erred: computer programs, functional use, and the patent-copyright divide / Wendy J. Gordon The limits of limitations and exceptions in copyright law / Jerome H. Reichman International copyright limitations and exceptions as development policy / Ruth L. Okediji A few observations on the state of copyright law / William F. Patry.
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Print version: Copyright law in an age of limitations and exceptions. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017