Copyfight
Subtitle: the global politics of digital copyright reform
By: Blayne Haggart
Series: Studies in comparative political economy and public policy -- 44; Studies in comparative political economy and public policy -- 44.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781442646643; 9781442614543
Subjects: Electronic information resources; Copyright and electronic data processing; Law and legislation; Copyright; Internet
Description: To answer this question, Copyfight examines the 1996 World Intellectual Property Organization internet treaties that began the current digital copyright regime. Blayne Haggart follows the WIPO treaties from negotiation to implementation from the perspective of three countries: the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Using extensive interviews with policymakers and experts in these three countries, Haggart argues that not all the power is in the hands of the U.S. government. Small countries can still set their own course on copyright legislation, while growing public interest in copyright issues means that even the United States might move away from ever-increasing copyright protection"--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-347) and index.
Table of contents: title: A most unlikely debate; title: A historical-institutionalist framework for analysing copyright policymaking; title: The political economy of copyright; title: The United States, the Internet treaties, and the setting of the digital-copyright agenda; title: 1993-1996 : US Copyright Reform and the WIPO Internet treaties; title: 1997-1998 : The digital Millennium Copyright Act; title: Canada and the Internet treaties : aborted implementations; title: Mexico and the Internet treaties, 1996-2010 : international pressure, domestic politics; title: Conclusion : the new politics of copyright and the potential for variation.