The Hungarian National Report on the Balance of Copyright was prepared for the XVIIIth International Congress of … law and copyright theory in respect of the issue of limitations and exceptions in the copyright regime. The report … decisions and the expert opinions of the Hungarian Copyright Expert Council …

This paper reveals how theory of copyright has developed from history. From The Statute of Anne in 1710 to Wheaton v …. Peters in 1834 where different aspects of copyright were put forward. This paper also deals with creation of American … copyright by a utilitarian, rather than a natural-law, impulse, the language of the Copyright Clause was borrowed directly from …

In June and October 2009, the French parliament passed controversial copyright laws aimed at deterring internet piracy …’s comprehensive privacy and data protection laws, notably by ensuring that copyright holders and internet service providers would not … also compare the balance it achieves with that of copyright enforcement in the US as well as with that of other existing or …

Written by a leading expert in copyright valuation, the paper reviews critical considerations for estimating damages in …

This contribution to a symposium on the tenth anniversary of the WIPO Copyright Treaty (now published with a 2010 … postscript) suggests that the WIPO Copyright Treaty represented a watershed moment in international copyright law for two reasons … copyright law in that the process that led up to the conclusion of the two internet treaties (both the WCT and the WIPO …

The copyright system has long been understood to play a critical role when it comes to the development and distribution … of creative work. Copyright serves a second fundamental purpose, however: it encourages the development and distribution …. When it comes to issues of online infringement, then, copyright policy serves two goals, not one: protect the incentives …