Intellectual Property Protection of Fact Based Works: Copyright and Its Alternatives

ISBN-13: 9781848441835 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 360 str.

Robert F Brauneis

Opis

The US Supreme Court decision in Feist Publications Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. held that factual matter is not subject to copyright protection because it is not original to the author. The decision dramatically rejected a two-century-old tradition of protecting factual compilations under copyright. The contributors to this book reassess this decision and its implications, approaching the protection of factual matter from a range of perspectives: policy, historical, comparative, empirical and philosophical.