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 …

between the best practices approach and an institutional perspective on copyright and the relationship between the best …

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 …

of its IP negative status, with particular emphasis on copyright. This article considers the historical denial of … copyright protection for typefaces in the United States, and examines arguments both for and against extending copyright … protection to digital typefaces. It compares copyright law with alternative methods of protection for digital typefaces. It also …

The Copyright Act grants authors and users a set of entitlements in copyrightable works. It is questionable whether and … Circuit’s historic decision in ProCD, Inc v Zeidenberg, which held that contracts are usually not preempted by the Copyright … Act, produced an extensive debate in the copyright literature regarding the enforceability and desirability of such …

The dominant explanatory/justificatory framework informing scholarly commentary on copyright law, policy and theory … today - certainly in the US - is law and economics. From this perspective, copyright law exists to underpin markets in … certain categories of 'information good' (copyright works). These markets in turn function to ensure that the private costs …

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 first time in Canadian copyright history, the court determined that Canadian law must recognize a user right to carry …