Collective management of copyright and related rights
By: edited by Daniel Gervais
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Alphen aan den Rijn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9789041154415
Subjects: Copyright clearinghouses; Copyright; Neighboring rights; International Copyright; Copyright licenses
Description: In the course of the last two decades, collective management organizations (CMOs) have become the nerve centres of copyright licensing in virtually every country. Their expertise and knowledge of copyright law and management have proven essential to make copyright work in the digital age. However, they have also been at the centre of debates about their efficiency, their transparency and their governance. This book, an extensively revised and updated edition of the major work on the legal status of CMOs, offers an in-depth analysis of the various operating CMO models, their rights and obligations vis-à-vis both users and members, acquisition of legal authority to license, and (most important) the rights to license digital uses of protected material and build (or improve current) information systems to deal with ever more complex rights management and licensing tasks. All the chapters have been updated since the 2010 edition. New chapters on Africa, China, Central Europe and New Zealand (together with Australia, which is no longer discussed in the separate chapter on Canada) have been added.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Collective management of copyright : theory and practice in the digital age / Daniel Gervais; title: Collective rights management from the viewpoint of international treaties, with special attention to the EU 'Acquis' / Mihály Ficsor; title: Collective management of copyrights and human rights : an uneasy alliance revisited / Laurence R. Helfer; title: Collective management in Central and Eastern Europe / Mihály Ficsor, Mitko Chatalbashev; title: Collective management in the European Union / Lucie Guibault, Stef van Gompel; title: Collective management of copyright in France / Sylvie Nerisson; title: Collective rights management in Germany / Jörg Reinbothe; title: Collective management in the Nordic countries / Tarja Koskinen-Olsson, Vigdís Sigurdardóttir; title: Collective management in Canada / Mario Bouchard; title: Collective management of copyright in Latin America / Karina Correa Pereira; title: Copyright collectives and collecting societies : the United States experience / Glynn Lunney; title: Collective management in Africa / J. Joel Baloyi, Tana Pistorius; title: Collective management in China / Fuxiao Jiang, Daniel Gervais; title: Collective management of copyright and neighbouring rights in Japan / Koji Okumura; title: Collective management and the coprright tribunals of New Zealand and Australia / Susy Frankel.