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 …

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 …

Copyright law employs a o ... …

This essay asks: How did we get into the current crisis of copyright law, and how to move beyond it? This crisis … has become acute as media progress has brought cultural creations online: we now increasingly face ever-harder copyright … that it finds common to the laws of copyright and of authors' rights. At the start, to assure that such rights operate …

The two-volume set entitled Critical Concepts in Intellectual Property Law: Copyright brings together a thought …-provoking collection of landmark and recent scholarship on copyright. Section 1 of Volume I focuses on the history of copyright, with Tyler … focuses on copyright’s philosophical foundations, framed by the work of Justin Hughes and followed by revisionist perspectives …

of copyright and of authors’ rights. Reconceptualizing notions key to these distinct types of laws, it then elaborates a …

copyright protection, which imposes artificial scarcity so that authors can recoup creation and dissemination costs. Scholars … can overtax consumer attention.Reducing copyright protection in this new environment may worsen the costs of attention … by copyrighted works. If copyright protection is narrowed, new entrants have reduced motivation to create works that are …

that have set in motion an ongoing process of fundamental changes in the nature of copyright law. The video tape recorder … internet begat the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Napster begat Napster. We see the law morph right in front of our eyes …, but its ultimate form is still obscure. As a consequence, the future of copyright is up for grabs. We live in a magical …