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Today, copyright policy is framed solely in terms of a trade off between the benefits of incentivizing authors to create new works and the losses from restricting access to those works. This is a mistake that has distorted the policy and legal debates concerning the fundamental role of copyright...
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With the Dutch referral of the Tom Kabinet case (C-263/18) in July 2017, the CJEU will soon have its final say on the admissibility of digital exhaustion under Art. 4(2) InfoSoc. Until now, years of national decisions and CJEU’s obiter dicta have provided a patchwork of inconsistent answers,...
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create their own digital content. Digitization, however, also raises the possibility of copyright infringement. “Copyright … and Digitization” aims to assist understanding and compliance with copyright law across libraries, archives, and museums …, and stresses the importance of “risk assessment” when conducting any digitization project. It also includes two cases …
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A review of two recent scholarly books on digital copyright law: The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle by Peter Baldwin (Princeton, 2014), and Copyfight: The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform by Blayne Haggart (Univ. of Toronto, 2014). Both books are meticulously...
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Innovation has wreaked creative destruction on traditional content platforms. During the decade following Napster's rise and fall, industry organizations launched litigation campaigns to combat the dramatic downward pricing pressure created by the advent of zero-price, copyright-infringing...
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Copyright is a complicated area of law that impacts on the lives and practices of almost everyone in our society. The reach of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) adds to the challenge of encouraging compliance with the law. This article suggests that recourse should be made to an area of legal...
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Die fortschreitende Digitalisierung macht Anpassungen des Urheberschutzes erforderlich. Sowohl das Europäische …
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Die fortschreitende Digitalisierung macht Anpassungen des Urheberschutzes erforderlich. Sowohl das Europäische …
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This paper quantifies the relationship between private-network file sharing activity and music sales in the BitTorrent era. Using a panel dataset of 2,251 albums' U.S. sales and file sharing downloads on a private network during 2008, I estimate the effect of file sharing on album sales....
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