This paper reviews an estimate of the economic effect on the New Zealand economy of copyright term extension which was … Zealand's copyright period from 50 to 70 years would average around $55 million per year. Our review of this estimate suggests … on which it was based made major errors. First it focused only on the well-known social costs of copyright while …

Interpretation of copyright limitations and exceptions is restrictive under EU law system. Likewise is in Spain … interpretation of limitations has been done in detriment of present essence of European copyright legal system …

Accounts of the ‘copyright industries' suggest that strong intellectual property rights help creative firms. However …

. This also applies to copyright law. However, harmonisation or unification of laws through legislation or CJEU decisions … further harmonisation, also in copyright law, could even be detrimental to the European cause. This article argues that the … (1744–1803) which is outlined in this article. Some of the problematic areas of copyright harmonisation that illustrate the …

also copyright law. The Court ruled that injunctions for patent infringement should no longer be granted automatically … interest. Although eBay concerned a patent claim, its reasoning relied on three copyright decisions, making its application to … copyright cases compelling. Nevertheless, lower courts in some early post-eBay copyright cases rebuffed arguments that the Court …

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 …

Illegal downloading of copyright materials by end-users had its heyday in the early 2000s, with music, television, and …, and the damages varied between $222.000 and $1.92 million. Building on this copyright infringement case, the chapter … ponders the appropriateness of copyright infringement damages in a world where many infringers see no profit from their …

copyright. This chapter provides an overview of the Court of Justice of the EU's (CJEU) application of EU primary law provisions … in the field of copyright, with the aim to understand whether and with which impact non-market considerations have found … intervened on national copyright laws respectively from 1991 to the advent of the Lisbon Treaty, and from the Lisbon Treaty …