Ebook: Collective management in the digital environment

This book aims to introduce the reader to some of the legislative solutions regarding collective copyright management mechanisms in the digital environment around the world – in regions such as China, the United States, Canada, Latin America (with emphasis on Brazil) and the European Union.

The collective copyright management system studied here was analyzed from two perspectives: aimed at the holder of rights and also with a closer look at the user’s situation. In the digital environment the latter is liable to use works of third parties, once this conduct is facilitated. In addition to phenomena such as dilution of authorship and confusion between author and user, there is also a whole ecosystem of “many-to-many” creation and diffusion materialized in Web 2.0 concepts. This leads to the need for answers from an author’s legal system created under “one-to-many” broadcast logics.