This paper will briefly discuss about copyright individual and collective management, and will examine legal bases for collective rights management (CRM). The main concern of this paper is to assess the establishment and development process of collective management organizations (CMO) in Kosovo,...

This review of William Patry's How to Fix Copyright highlights three of Patry's themes. First is Patry's insistence that copyright policy be based on real-world evidence, a suggestion that should be uncontroversial but instead runs headlong into the near-religious commitments of copyright...

In the past, free distribution of copyrighted content was rare and was usually performed in the service of advertising or politics. Today, the ease of digital copying and distribution has enabled authors and artists to freely share digital copies of their creative and original works with broad...

In the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) and others v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills case, the High Court of Justice in matter of private copy exception provides the twofold prime opportunity to shed light on the state of the art of copyright...

This Article argues for a moderate but significant recalibration of the dominant interpretation of §512 of the DMCA. While ISPs are correct that the existing language of §512 does not give copyright owners a right to the “take down and stay down” regime they would prefer, it does ask more...

As business clients make available an ever-increasing array of online content and services, the specter of liability for inappropriate online content looms large. Still, U.S. federal law protects businesses that adopt appropriate take-down regimes for copyright infringement, defamatory content,...

Fair use is often criticized as unpredictable and doctrinally incoherent - a conclusion which necessarily implies that the copyright system is fundamentally broken. This article confronts that critique by systematically assessing the predictability of fair use outcomes in litigation....

Digital communications technologies have led to fundamental changes in the ways that cultural institutions fulfil their public missions of access, preservation, research, and education. Institutions are developing publicly-accessible websites in which users can visit online exhibitions, search...

Consumers who want to express themselves by wearing contemporary clothing styles should not have to choose between expensive brands and counterfeit products. There should be a clear distinction in trademark law between illegal, counterfeit goods and perfectly legal (at least with respect to...

Using an adapted taxonomy, this article identifies the technological features on predominant social media sites – Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Wikipedia – that encourage and constrain users from engaging in generative activities. Notwithstanding the conflicting narrative painted by recent...