Global Copyright
Subtitle: Three hundred years since the Statute of Anne, from 1709 to cyberspace
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cheltenham, Glos, GL; Northampton, Mass.
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9781848447660
Table of contents: title: Part 1: The Statute of Anne and its role in the world of copyright; title: 1. Introduction to Part I: the history of copyright; title: 2. The Statute of Anne 1709-10: its historical setting; title: 3. What's new about the Statute of Anne? or Six observations in search of an act; title: 4. To what degree did the Statute of Anne (8 Anne, c. 19, [1709]) affect commercial practices of the book trade in eighteenth-century England? Some provisional answers about copyright, chiefly from bibliography and book history; title: 5. The Statute of Anne and authors' rights: Pope v. Curll (1741); title: 6. Transition from guild regulation to modern copyright law- a view from the Low Countries; title: 7. Transition from guild regulation to modern copyright law (Sweden); title: 8. From privilege to modern copyright law; title: 9. The influence (past and present) of the Statute of Anne in France; title: 10. The influence of the Statute of Anne on Belgian copyright law; title: 11. Colonial copyright redux: 1709 v. 1832; title: Part II: Digital libraries and online licensing; title: 12. Introduction to Part II; title: 13. Phoenixes in the internet era - the changing role of libraries; title: 14. The development of digital libraries in the United States; title: 15. Digital libraries in the current legal and educational environment: a European perspective; title: 16. Digital libraries in the current legal and educational environment: towards a remunerated compulsory license or limitation?; title: 17. Digital libraries: collective administration for online libraries - a rightsholders' dream or an outdated illusion?; title: 18. Towards a contextual copyright?; title: 19. Google Book Search; title: 20. Problem or solution? Mass digitisation of library stocks and the Google Book Settlement; title: 21. Online exploitation and licensing: General Reporter's summary and proposals for discussion; title: Part III: The Borderless Era: International Exhaustion, Global Administration and Formalities; title: 22. Introduction to Part III; title: 23. International exhaustion; title: 24. The economic perspective: exhaustion in the digital age; title: 25. The legal perspective on exhaustion in the borderless era: consideration of a digital first sale doctrine for online transmission of digital works in the United States; title: 26. Exhaustion in digital products and the 'accidental' impact on the balance of interests in copyright law; title: 27. Exhaustion - a casualty of the borderless digital era; title: 28. Historical appearances and disappearances of formalities: from Berne to national laws; title: 29. Formalities in the digital era: an obstacle or opportunity?; title: 30. The US experience with formalities: a love/hate relationship; title: 31. The scope of formalities in international copyright law in a digital context; title: 32. The graduated response and the role of intermediaries: avoiding the Apocalypse or a return to the sources?