@article{57597,
      recid = {57597},
      author = {Edward W. Ploman and L. Clark Hamilton},
      title = {Copyright : Intellectual Property in the Information Age},
      pages = {1 online resource (258 pages).},
      abstract = {First published in 1980, Copyright offers an explanation  and an analysis of the wider implications of copyright as  an instrument for ordering the flows of information and  culture within and among societies. The book traces the  development of copyright and related rights with emphasis  on the policy aspects and on how copyright was influenced  by and in its turn influenced the users of new information  technology. Significant discussion is devoted to the  international aspects of copyright, its unique position in  international law, and its role in the relations between  industrialized and developing countries. Having provided a  basic understanding of copyright principles and their  implications, the authors then analyse how well or badly  copyright is coping with the various information and  communication technologies that have developed primarily in  the twentieth century. Finally, they discuss how copyright  operates in a modern technological society, the existing  challenges to copyright, and its prospects for the future.},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/57597},
}