Digital Copyright

Simon Stokes is a solicitor and a partner with Blake Morgan in London.

1. Why Digital Copyright Matters
1.1. Overview of this Book
1.2. Copyright: Its Scope and Rationale
1.3. The International Aspect of Copyright
1.4. The Digital Challenge to Copyright
1.5. Internet Technology and Copyright
1.6. International Legislation
1.7. The Future

2. Digital Copyright: The Basics
2.1. Introduction 5
2.2. What Digital Copyright Protects
2.3. How Digital Copyright can be Infringed
2.4. Exceptions and Defences to Digital Copyright Infringement
2.5. Who Owns the Digital Copyright?
2.6. The Implementation of the Electronic Commerce and Information Society Directives into UK Law
2.7. The Modernisation of EU Copyright Law in Light of the Digital Single Market

3. Digital Database Law and the Internet
3.1. The Relationship Between Copyright and Database Right
3.2. Digital Copyright Protection for Databases
3.3. Database Right Protection
3.4. Some Practical Suggestions

4. Digital Moral Rights: The Basics
4.1. What are Digital Moral Rights?
4.2. How are Digital Moral Rights Infringed?
4.3. Dealing with Moral Rights in Practice

5. Digital Rights and Competition Law
5.1. Overview: Competition Law and Digital Copyright
5.2. UK Competition Law
5.3. EU Law
5.4. Penalties for Breaching Competition Law
5.5. Implications for Digital Copyright Businesses
5.6. Concluding Comments

6. Software Copyright
6.1. Code and Copyright: The Basics
6.2. The Software Directive
6.3. What Does Software Copyright Protect?
6.4. The Challenge of the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Movement to Software Copyright

7. Digital Copyright and E-Commerce
7.1. Content Re-Use
7.2. Licensing and Linking
7.3. Digital Image Protection
7.4. Lawful Use of Search Engines
7.5. Napster to the Pirate Bay: Online Copyright Infringement
7.6. Service Provider Liability, Platforms and the ‘Value Gap’
7.7. Standards and Web Content
7.8. Streaming Media and Digital Copyright
7.9. Technical Protection Measures and Fair Use: The End of Copyright?
7.10. The Digital Single Market

8. Digital Copyright: From Web 2.0 to Blockchain
8.1. Web 2.0 and Copyright
8.2. Fair Dealing and Web 2.0
8.3. Liability for Hosting and/or Distributing Infringing Content
8.4. E-Publishing
8.5. App Development and Licensing
8.6. Big Data
8.7. Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and Copyright
8.8. Blockchain and Copyright

9. Protecting and Managing Your Digital Copyright Assets
9.1. General
9.2. Issues for Specific Industries
9.3. The Role of Collecting Societies/Collective Management Organisations in the Digital Environment
9.4. Orphan Works, Extended Collective Licensing and Digital Copyright Exchanges/Hubs
9.5. Precedent Checklists and Precedents
9.6. Consumers and Copyright Agreements