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Since the beginning of the year 2009 the German press publishers have lobbied for their own neighbouring right which should cover even short snippets of online press articles. The new right should basically protect the press publishers' investments in the online environment. Currently there is...
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One manifestation of the trend towards the strengthening of copyright protection that has been noticeable during the … made in U.S. copyright laws during the second half of the twentieth century. Specifically, we present estimates of the past … these deferrals of access due to legislative extensions of the duration of copyright protection are found to reach …
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This short article focuses on two means of copyright infringement deterrence and compensation available to copyright … owners in Canada that are specific to online infringement — namely, the Copyright Act's notice and notice regime, which … recently came into force, and injunctions to compel ISPs to disclose the identity of their subscribers to a copyright owner …
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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 …
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In copyright, we are guided by a simple intuition: More revenue leads to more original works. But the relationship … between revenue and creative output is not so simple. Broadening copyright in order to increase the revenue associated with … same time, however, because copyright protection is uniform, broadening copyright also increases the revenue associated …
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As a new and global communications medium, the Internet has enabled the quick and effective dissemination of digitized content. For popular and technological reasons, the music industry has become the first major content industry to face the legal issues surrounding the rapid and widespread...
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Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies are often seen as a threat by copyright owners because they encourage piracy by making … original products before they make their purchase decision. We determine copyright owners' protection strategies according to …
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[The] Internet phenomenon has ... created an immense conundrum in copyright circles. The problem, starkly stated, if … difficult to resolve, is this: if copyright works can easily and speedily be copied, revised, distributed, transmitted or … otherwise manipulated in cyberspace, can copyright still perform its legal, social and ethical functions of serving and …
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