The article examines the level of international copyright protection from the perspective of such aspects as the urgent nature of copyright protection and the possibility of applying the institution ...of compulsory license. To this end, the norms aimed at protecting copyright holders in the Russian Federation, the CIS, the European Union and other foreign countries, in particular, in the USA, are analyzed. The most important international conventions in the field of copyright and related rights protection are reflected. The legal basis of the activity of courts in cross-border copyright relations is shown. The actual problems of private international law on the improvement of substantive and conflictof- laws legal regulation in this area are identified. The analysis suggests that the establishment of common criteria for calculating the term of copyright protection in a single unified act is due to the need to combine private and public interests in using the results of intellectual activity and their exceptional importance for the globalization of the world economic and cultural space. Arguments about the possible introduction of compulsory licenses for copyrighted products of foreign companies, by analogy with those already provided for in Article 1362 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation for objects of patent law, lead the authors to the conclusion that the mechanism of compulsory license should not take a permanent place in the regulation of intellectual property, since it will not significantly help in reducing economic risks and losses.
Piracy in the Indian Film Industry: Copyright and Cultural Consonance sheds light on how copyright law works at the grassroots level in India, by exploring the social, cultural, historical, legal and ...economic dimensions of piracy in one of the biggest copyright-based industries: the Indian film industry. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book provides novel and insightful findings on the complexity and diversity of perceptions regarding piracy within Indian society. The bottom-up approach to analysis adopted in the book elucidates how local factors influence copyright enforcement and the book proposes a mix of positive and negative incentives to increase the voluntary compliance of copyright law in India.
What if we could start with a blank slate, and write ourselves a brand new copyright system? What if we could design a law, from scratch, unconstrained by existing treaty obligations, business models ...and questions of political feasibility? Would we opt for radical overhaul, or would we keep our current fundamentals? Which parts of the system would we jettison? Which would we keep? In short, what might a copyright system designed to further the public interest in the current legal and sociological environment actually look like? Taking this thought experiment as their starting point, the leading international thinkers represented in this collection reconsider copyright’s fundamental questions: the subject matter that should be protected, the ideal scope and duration of those rights, and how it should be enforced. Tackling the biggest challenges affecting the current law, their essays provocatively explore how the law could better secure to creators the fruits of their labours, ensure better outcomes for the world’s more marginalised populations and solve orphan works. And while the result is a collection of impossible ideas, it also tells us much about what copyright could be – and what prescriptive treaty obligations currently force us to give up. The book shows that, reimagined, copyright could serve creators and the broader public far better than it currently does – and exposes intriguing new directions for achievable reform.
Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is the lively story of legal giant Nathan Burkan, whose career encapsulated the coming of age of the institutions, archetypes, and attitudes that define American ...popular culture. With a client list that included Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, Frank Costello, Victor Herbert, Mae West, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, Arnold Rothstein, and Samuel Goldwyn, Burkan was "New York's Spotlight Lawyer" for more than three decades. He was one of the principal authors of the epochal Copyright Act of 1909 and the guiding spirit behind the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (Ascap), which provided the first practical means for songwriters to collect royalties for public performances of their works, revolutionizing the music business and the sound of popular music. While the entertainment world adapted to the disruptive technologies of recorded sound, motion pictures, and broadcasting, Burkan's groundbreaking work laid the legal foundation for the Great American Songbook and the Golden Age of Hollywood, and it continues to influence popular culture today. Gary A. Rosen tells stories of dramatic and uproarious courtroom confrontations, scandalous escapades of the rich and famous, and momentous clashes of powerful political, economic, and cultural forces. Out of these conflicts, the United States emerged as the world's leading exporter of creative energy. Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is an engaging look at the life of Nathan Burkan, a captivating history of entertainment and intellectual property law in the early twentieth century, and a rich source of new discoveries for anyone interested in the spirit of the Jazz Age.
This thesis develops a conflict of laws concept for the cross-border activities of collecting societies. De-spite the deliberate promotion of the Europeanisation of collecting societies and the ...increasing interna-tionalisation of their activities, this issue has so far remained unaddressed. The work first examines the problem from the perspective of private international law. In a second part, it analyses the characteristics of collecting societies in the EU internal market. The conflict-of-law rules have been developed on the basis of a function-based approach and reflect the systematic interdependence of different legal regimes controlling the activities of collecting societies. Against this background, the developed conflict-of-law rules are not only applicable in a German or European context, but can also be generalised. Where collecting society laws perform similar functions, the same principles can be directly applied.
Technological developments have shaped copyright law's development, and now the prospect of endless, effortless digital copying poses a significant challenge to modern copyright law. Many complain ...that copyright protection has burgeoned wildly, far beyond its original boundaries. Some have questioned whether copyright can survive the digital age. From a historical perspective, however, many of these 'new' challenges are simply fresh presentations of familiar dilemmas. This book explores the history of international copyright law, and looks at how this history is relevant today. It focuses on international copyright during the nineteenth century, as it affected Europe, the British colonies (particularly Canada), America, and the UK. As we consider the reform of modern copyright law, nineteenth-century experiences offer highly relevant empirical evidence. Copyright law has proved itself robust and flexible over several centuries. If directed with vision, Seville argues, it can negotiate cyberspace.
Cross provides answers to questions related to copyright. Topics discussed include the possible impact of the new Copyright Claims Board (CCB) to higher education, what license to use for creating ...open materials, and the litigation involving the Bridgerton Musical.
Hierdie artikel ondersoek die bedryf van aanlyn musiekstroomdienste, en in die besonder tot watter mate outeursreghebbendes en kunstenaars vergoed word vir die gebruik van hul beskermde werk deur ...musiekstroomdienste. Soos tegnologie ontwikkel, het die gebruik van musiekstroomdienste die oorwegende manier geword waarop luisteraars omgaan met musiek. Hoewel die aantal musiekstroomdiensgebruikers beduidend toeneem, is daar nie 'n ooreenstemmende toename in die tantieme wat outeursreghebbendes en kunstenaars ontvang vir die gebruik van hul werke deur musiekstroomdienste nie. Daar is 'n wereldwye poging om hierdie waardeverskil aan te spreek. Die artikel ontleed die Suid-Afrikaanse wetgewing rakende die verhouding tussen outeursreghebbendes en kunstenaars, en die tantieme waarop hul geregtig is. Daar word ondersoek of hierdie partye effektief beskerm word in die lig van hoe aanlyn musiekstroomdienste bedryf word. Die outeur voer aan dat daar 'n duidelike verskil is in die mate waartoe outeursreghebbendes en kunstenaars beskerm word in terme van die Wet op Outeursreg en die Wet op die Beskerming van Kunstenaars. Kunstenaars het slegs 'n reg op vergoeding vir die gebruik van hul optredes, waar outeursreghebbendes eksklusiewe regte het tot die gebruik en uitbuiting van hul werk. Gebaseer op die voorstelle en wysigings van die Wereld Intellektuele Goedere Organisasie en die Europese Unie, voer die outeur aan dat n addisionele reg tot vergoeding vir die gebruik van hul werk in die geval van die interaktiewe manier waarop musiekstroomdienste bedryf word, ingesluit moet word in die raamwerk van outeursregwetgewing. Hierdie voorgestelde wysiging verseker dat SuidAfrikaanse musikante billike vergoeding ontvang vir die gebruik van hul werk in die bedryf van aanlyn musiekstroomdienste en verseker ook dat die Suid-Afrikaanse wetgewende raamwerk op gelyke voet met internasionale standaarde kan wees.
In the continuous development of computer network technology, multimedia technology and information technology, digitization has become the main means of displaying information, thus facilitating the ...storage, copying and dissemination of digital multimedia information. In this context, there are no restrictions on arbitrary editing, copying, modification, and dissemination of digital images, music, etc., which leads to various social problems such as information security, copyright disputes, and piracy. With the advancement of networks and multimedia, digital watermarking technology has received worldwide attention as an effective method of copyright protection. Improving the anti-geometric attack ability of digital watermarking algorithms using image feature-based algorithms have received extensive attention. This paper proposes a novel robust watermarking algorithm based on SURF-DCT perceptual hashing (Speeded Up Robust Features and Discrete Cosine Transform), namely blind watermarking. The algorithm firstly uses the affine transformation with a feature matrix and chaotic encryption technology to preprocess the watermark image, enhance the confidentiality of the watermark, and perform block and DCT coefficients extraction on the carrier image, and then uses the positive and negative quantization rules to modify the DCT coefficients. The embedding of the watermark is completed, and the blind extraction of the watermark realized. Experiments show that the algorithm has good invisibility and strong robustness against conventional and geometric attacks and can effectively protect the security of images with NC value more than 90%.
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