Mahatma Gandhi is revered the world over for his views on freedom and non-violence, ideas that he deployed with great success during India's freedom struggle. As a thinker, he is commonly believed to have been a moral perfectionist: anti-utilitarian in mindset and deeply skeptical of market...

State and federal legislatures have enacted numerous anti-piracy copyright statutes protecting sound recordings. This paper provides an overview of the four types of anti-piracy statutes, the recording industry interests needing protection, and the preemption arguments used by defendants. Part I...

The Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) required extensive changes to Australian copyright law. This paper assesses the impact of these changes one decade on. It considers, first, whether the costs and/or benefits predicted in 2004 have eventuated, finding clear evidence that AUSFTA has...

For well over a century, legislators, courts, lawyers, and scholars have spent significant time and energy debating the optimal duration of copyright protection. While there is general consensus that copyright's term is of legal and economic significance, arguments both for and against a lengthy...

Regulatory arbitrage — defined as the manipulation of regulatory treatment for the purpose of reducing regulatory costs or increasing statutory earnings — is often seen in heavily-regulated industries. An increase in the regulatory nature of copyright, coupled with rapid technological...

On a per capita basis, do African-American authors produce more copyright registrations than non-Hispanic whites? Do men and women show a within-group bias in choosing co-authors? And what decade in the average musician's life is the most productive? This article provides answers to these...

This paper makes a detailed analysis on how parody affects the fashion industry. In addition, the scope of this paper is to advocate the need for a better balance between parody and fashion, which can be arranged by affixing the Trade Mark Dilution Revision Act. This paper starts by making a...

In the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) and others v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills case, the High Court of Justice in matter of private copy exception provides the twofold prime opportunity to shed light on the state of the art of copyright...

This Article shows a case study of the valuation of copyright fees paid by cable operators to copyright collecting societes. Currently in Poland there are more than 100 court cases between the collecting societies and cable operators. This case study is based on an original model developed by...