Ebook: Copyright Law: A Handbook of Contemporary Research (Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property)

Traces the changes undergone and the challenges faced by copyright, as well as its roots and its diversity. This book brings together a group of copyright scholars who analyze a range of issues and aspects of copyright law, and a multiplicity of perspectives on a single topic. Originality in copyright : a solution to the database problem? / John Adams -- Legal issues pertaining to the restoration and reconstitution of manuscripts, sheet music, paintings and films for marketing purposes / Paul Torremans -- A Canadian copyright narrative / Daniel Gervais -- Can and should misappropriation also protect databases? : a comparative approach / Estelle Derclaye -- Database copyright : the story of BHB / Charlotte Waelde -- "Une Chose Publique"? : the author's domain and the public domain in early British, French and US copyright law / Jane Ginsburg -- Draw me a public domain / Valerie-Laure Benabou and Severine Dusollier -- Could multimedia works be protected as a form of audiovisual works? / Irini Stamatoudi -- Adequate protection of folklore : a work in progress / Silke von Lewinski -- Regulating competition by way of copyright limitations and exceptions / Thomas Dreier -- Competition in the field of collective management : preferring "creative competition" to allocative efficiency in European copyright law / Josef Drexl -- Individual and collective management of copyright in a digital environment / Marco Ricolfi -- Copyright law and scientific research / Reto Hilty -- Copyright and freedom of expression in Sweden : private law in a constitutional context / Jan Rosen -- On-line teaching and copyright : any hopes for an EU harmonized playground? / Raquel Xalabarder -- Development of law in Asia : divergence versus convergence : copyright piracy and the prosecution of copyright offences and the adjudication of IP cases : is there a need for a special IP court in Malaysia? / Ida Madieha bt. Abdul Ghani Azmi -- Alternative dispute resolution : a remedy for soothing tensions between technological measures and exceptions? / Brigitte Linder -- Qualitative effects of copyright policies / Antoon Quaedvlieg -- Questioning the principles of territoriality : the determination of territorial mechanisms of commercialization / Paul Torremans -- A broadcasters' treaty? / Tom Rivers