International Copyright: Principles, Law, and Practice

by Paul Goldstein, P. Bernt Hugenholtz

Overview

This is an indispensable one-volume reference for practitioners and scholars of international copyright. It is a unique synthesis of copyright practice and law, taking into account the Bern Convention of 1989, the TRIPs Agreement concluded five years later, and the advent of the Internet. Major topics include the principles that underlie the common law and civil law of copyright and author's right and the international treaty arrangements that bind them together; the international and comparative law of copyright, author's right, and neighboring rights; and the governing rules of private international law that regulate litigation and transactional practice in the area.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199333776
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/15/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Paul Goldstein currently serves as Of Counsel at Morrison & Foerster in their intellectual property group and has been regularly included in Best Lawyers in America. He has served as chairman of the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel on Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information, has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright, and Competition Law in Munich, Germany, and was a founding faculty member of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center. In addition, before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1975, he was a professor of law at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School.

P. Bernt Hugenholtz is Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam (IViR). In 1989 he received his doctor's degree cum laude from the University of Amsterdam, where he defended his thesis on copyright protection of works of facts. He has written numerous books, studies and articles on a variety of topics involving copyright, information technology, new media and the Internet. At the University of Amsterdam he teaches courses in copyright law, international copyright law and industrial property law. He was a member of the Amsterdam Bar and partner of the law firm Stibbe between 1990 and 1998. Since 2003 he has been a deputy judge at the Court of Appeal in Arnhem.

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS
JOURNALS

PART I Principles of International Copyright

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

CHAPTER 2 The Legal Traditions

CHAPTER 3 The Norms of International Copyright

CHAPTER 4 Territoriality, National Treatment, Jurisdiction, and Conflict of Laws

CHAPTER 5 Scope and Points of Attachment of International Protection

PART II Substantive Copyright Law

CHAPTER 6 Subject Matter of Copyright and Neighboring Rights

CHAPTER 7 Authorship and Ownership

CHAPTER 8 Term of Protection

CHAPTER 9 Economic Rights

CHAPTER 10 Moral Rights

CHAPTER 11 Exemptions, Statutory Licenses, and Other Limitations on Exclusive Rights

CHAPTER 12 Enforcement

APPENDICES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Editorial Reviews

"Whilst providing comprehensive coverage of all the global topics around copyright, the book is written in an easily accessible manner, explaining complex issues in an understandable way, with helpful headings to be able to locate a particular subject area efficiently. ... This book will be of particular use to copyright lawyers and practitioners working with international licenses, agreements or litigation, or dealing with oversees exploitation. Academics, researchers and students looking at the international copyright system will find this to be an exhaustive resource." — Hayleigh Bosher, IPKAT Blog

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