Copyright and the internet
Subtitle: a Caribbean perspective on the WIPO internet treaties
By: by Diana R. Douglin.
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: University of Toronto. -- Faculty of Law -- Dissertations.; World Intellectual Property Organization.; Copyright -- Electronic data processing.; Internet -- Law and legislation.
Other titles: WIPO Internet treaties
Description: The WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) are suggested to be essential to ensure adequate protection worldwide of copyright in the digital arena. I will consider why Caribbean countries are considering implementation of Treaties and conduct a general analysis of the laws and policies currently in effect in the Caribbean in relation to the enforcement of copyright. I will answer the question whether Caribbean countries should implement the Treaties and discuss the requirements needed for their implementation into the national laws of the Caribbean Islands. I will argue that there is no real compelling ideological basis for implementation of the Treaties and further that Caribbean countries are practically not in a strong enough position to implement and enforce the Internet Treaties. I will suggest methods of adequate implementation when ratification becomes more feasible and in doing so will also examine the examples of other countries, which have ratified the Treaties.
Notes: Thesis (LL.M.)-University of Toronto, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references.

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