Copyright, Property and the Social Contract: The Reconceptualisation of Copyright

ISBN-13: 9783319956893 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

John Gilchrist; Brian Fitzgerald

Opis

This book provides international perspectives on the law of copyright in relation to three core themes - copyright and developing countries; The third theme includes an examination of the extent to which technology will dictate the development of the law, and a re-examination of the role of copyright in fostering innovation and creativity.

Spis treści

Part I: Copyright and Developing Countries: Copyright Legacy and Developing Countries: Important Lessons for Nigeria's Emerging Copyright Reform by Adebambo Adewopo.- Embracing Open Policies to Enable Access to Information: The EDO State Open Data Portal by Kunle Ola.- Copyright in the Palestinian Territories: Setting the Scene by Rawan Al Tamimi.- Copyright Law in Indonesia: From a Hybrid to an Endogenous System? by Christoph Antons.- Copyright and (Dis)harmonisation: Can Developing Nations Prioritise Their Own Public Good in a Global Copyright Hegemony? by Mark Perry.- Part II: Government and Copyright: Australia-US Copyright Relations: An Unhurried View of the Reciprocal Protection of Literary Works by John S Gilchrist.- The Adoption of the American Model of Fair Use in the U.A.E Copyright Law by Rami Olwan.- Digitising the Public Domain: Non-original Photographs in Comparative EU Copyright Law by Thomas Margoni.- Part III: Copyright, Technology and the Future: Copyright in the Age of Access by Brian Fitzgerald.- The Royalties System and Paratrophic Copyright by Ben Atkinson.- Copyright According to Google by Jo Gray.- Dead Cats in the Mail: Dallas Buyers Club and the Emergence of the User in Australian Intermediary Copyright Law by Kylie Pappalardo and Carrick Brough.- The Making Available Right: Problems with “the Public” by Cheryl Foong.

O autorze

John Gilchrist is a Senior Research Fellow in Law at the Australian Catholic University.  He holds postgraduate degrees and qualifications from four Australian Universities.  He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.

Dr Gilchrist has been involved with intellectual property as a policy and practicing lawyer and as an academic over a period of four decades. He was the Secretary of the Australian Copyright Law Committee on Reprographic Reproduction (the Franki Committee) and a member of the Australian Copyright Law Review Committee on its Crown Copyright reference. He has published numerous articles and a monograph on government copyright issues.

Brian Fitzgerald is Professor of Law at the Australian Catholic University and was the Foundation Dean of Law from 2012-2015. He holds postgraduate degrees in law from Oxford University and Harvard University and a current practising certificate as a Barrister.

Blurb

This book provides international perspectives on the law of copyright in relation to three core themes - copyright and developing countries; the government and copyright; and technology and the future of copyright. The third theme includes an examination of the extent to which technology will dictate the development of the law, and a re-examination of the role of copyright in fostering innovation and creativity. As a critique, one chapter discusses how certain rights can create or reinforce social inequality under copyright royalty systems. Underlying these themes is the role the law of copyright has in encouraging or impeding human flourishing.