Toward A More Balanced Approach: Rethinking and Readjusting Copyright Systems in the Digital Network Era

Based on comparative research concerning both international conventions and laws, regulations, policies and cases from different jurisdictions, this book puts forward proposals for recovering the balance of interests between copyright holders, technological intermediaries and public users with regard to the access to, distribution and exploitation of copyright works. Four specific issues are discussed in detail:

· an anti-circumvention rule for protection of technological measures that contr...