U.S. intellectual property law is firmly rooted in utilitarian principles. Copyright law is viewed as a means to give … proper monetary incentives to authors for their creative effort. Many European copyright systems pursue additional goals … moral rights protection should differ across the Atlantic and whether a purely profit-based theory of copyright law is …

creativity (focusing on patent, trade secret, and copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace … copyright law and direct consumer protection statutes and public enforcement in the case of trademarks). …

In the platform age, copyright-protected contents are primarily disseminated over the internet. This model poses … various challenges to the copyright regime that was mainly designed in and for the analog age. One of these challenges is … related to the fair balance between the interests of rightsholders and other members of society. Copyright norms try to …

Illegal downloading of copyright materials by end-users had its heyday in the early 2000s, with music, television, and …, and the damages varied between $222.000 and $1.92 million. Building on this copyright infringement case, the chapter … ponders the appropriateness of copyright infringement damages in a world where many infringers see no profit from their …

After reviewing the standards of secondary liability for copyright and trademark infringement in the online context …

The article describes the challenges of copyright protection in the digital world. Starting from the observation that … copyright is one of the most disputed regulative systems in the 21st century, it analyses the reasons for the intensity of the … impact copyright law has undergone since computers and Internet access found their way into almost every household. What was …

implications of unauthorized use and copyright protection; (3) empirical evidence on the effects of copyright protection on rights … holder revenues and innovation as well as alternatives to copyright to help finance creativity; (4) key topics in the …

The assertion that a 'license' is simply a 'contract not to sue' has become a commonplace in both copyright and patent … of the Copyright Act of 1976, which has been (erroneously) construed as a statute of frauds governing contract formation …