Is Africa' rural economy transforming as its economies grow? This paper uses comparable income aggregates from 41 national household surveys from 22 countries to explore the extent of income diversification among rural households in Sub-Saharan Africa, and to look at how income diversification...

The article focuses on the clash of digital technologies and the copyright law from the recent perspective of long term preservation of culturally important works kept in the records of publicly available libraries. The author argues that although the national legislators in the European Union...

The Hungarian National Report on the Balance of Copyright was prepared for the XVIIIth International Congress of Comparative Law, held in July 2010 in Washington D.C. (USA). The report introduces the features of the Hungarian statute law, case law and copyright theory in respect of the issue of...

The fair use of copyrighted works is one of the most important issues facing copyright law and the digital world today. Many aspects of it, however, are sometimes unclear. For example, under what circumstances is it legally possible to create a private copy? What are the authors’ rights that...

The evolution of an entirely new digital culture is apparent. Intellectual creative activity has become something of a norm in our everyday lives. It would appear that besides the traditional copyright paradigm a new copyright conception emerges, where user-generated content earns great...

The paper aims to introduce the types of and the trends related to the latest new generation free trade agreements (FTAs) of the European Union (EU). The paper introduces how the EU has constantly broadened the scope of the copyright chapters of the FTAs it signed with its global partners. The...

The challenge that illegal file-­sharing poses to legal criminalisation is addressed in this study. Nonetheless, the pretexts and reasons for the specific character of file-­sharing behaviour and norms in a community likely, to various degrees, correlate with the specifics in the legal...

In the past decades due to changed technical advances, features of the personality have become economically exploitable to an extent not previously known. Pop stars, TV celebrities as well as famous athletes have sought protection against the commercial use of their images, names and likenesses...

P2P file-sharing dominated the illegal online uses of copyrighted materials since its appearance in 1999. In 2012, I have concluded my research on this field in a monograph. Six years passed by and it is time to double-check what foreseeable consequences came through and how some other...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a part of our daily life, and “algorithmic creativity” and the protection of it by copyright law has similarly gained a spotlight recently. This article collects the key arguments against the proposal of such protection. The core elements of copyright...