Originality as a requirement of copyright has attracted diverse interpretations both within and across legal systems. Why? Because, it seems, the courts have had to reconcile creativity favoured in civil law countries and industrious labour upheld in common law countries. By allowing for both...

The production of digital content is a phenomenon which has completely changed the conditions of access to knowledge. Within this framework it becomes even more important to find and to formulate a new settlement for intellectual property rights balancing contrasted rights. Owners of the old...

Digital technology poses an enormous impact to the creation and dissemination of works of authorship. First of all, all kinds of information, including text, sound, graphics, and motion pictures, etc., are capable of being stored in a unitary digital format (i.e. translated into a sequence of...