Having been an observer of public policy towards Crown copyright for a number of years now it is interesting to see just how far government has moved over the past decade in its stance on the issue. What began as a fairly entrenched viewpoint that Crown copyright was a necessary instrument of...

In today’s reality, technology is to be a core aspect of our life. More and more people interact through social media and other methods such as messengers. However, recently, another innovation that started to be trendy is named the metaverse. It permits people to have the next level of...

This pair of papers involves a reprinting of "Of Harms and Benefits: Torts, Restitution, and Intellectual Property," 21 J. LEGAL STUDIES 449 (1992), along with an introduction to that article for students, entitled "Copyright as Tort's Mirror Image". Both involve comparisons between statutory...

The process of harmonisation of copyright law in the European Union has been underway for more than twenty years. Substantial progress has been made, but some fundamental issues - moral rights, authorship and ownership, copyright contracts, levies for private copying, secondary liability and...

Bioinformatics is the development and use of databases for storing and interpreting genomic information. The information explosion in these databases has raised a plethora of intellectual property issues for the scientists who depend on them. Copyright and Database protection are two notable and...

The advent of statutory copyright in eighteenth-century England raised questions about ensuring access to the materials that writers need to produce new books. The public domain did not spring into being as the obverse of the rights afforded by the Act of Anne (1710), nor was it created by...

This paper is a translation of an earlier paper published in German: http://ssrn.com/abstract= 2206868. At the time the first paper was published, the ancillary copyright for news publishers had not yet been adopted by the German legislator. However, the conclusions drawn in both papers are...

The Indian Copyright Act, 1957 (the Act) governs copyright law in India. It finds its roots in its colonial past, being heavily influenced by the Copyright Act of the United Kingdom of 1956. The Act has served well for long, but with technological developments and increasing discontent among...