Music copyrights are an instrument of the legal system that provides for incentives for commercial music market creation and profit generation. This article addresses the trials and tribulations of the music authors in Macedonia with respect to collective management of their music copyrights....

In this article, the authors revisit the origins and purpose of the law on authorising infringement and propose that the word “authorise” should bear the dictionary meaning of “sanction, approve, countenance”, in lieu of the phrase “grant or purported grant” as adopted in the CBS...

In this paper, Ms. Wilkinson covers the relationship between the copyright and the data protection regimes in Canada. In her study of the question, Ms. Wilkinson explains how the control over information created under copyright regime contrasted with the control created under data protection...

The rapid development of the digital information society has shaken the creative content sector to its very foundations and has upset the balance between right holders, intermediaries and users. On the one hand, there is more creative content available, creators can produce and distribute their...

Copyright is an absolute intellectual property right. Historically it is of territorial nature. One of the central issues of copyright is the remuneration of authors. A copyright confers to its holder a legal monopoly comprising certain economic rights that are granted for pecuniary...

The European Union (EU) legislative activity in the field of copyright has so far been mainly based on what is now Article 114 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), which allows the EU to harmonise national laws for the establishment and functioning of the internal...

The Article deals with the right of communication of the work to public in the information society. The different types of use of the work on the Internet are discussed as browsing, uploading and downloading, streaming, webcasting and making the work available to public in general. The major...