New Directions in Copyright Law, Volume 5

Edited by Fiona Macmillan, School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Contents:

Preface
Fiona Macmillan

PART I: COPYRIGHT, CORPORATE POWER AND HUMAN RIGHTS
1. Database Sui Generis Right: The Need to Take the Public’s Right to Information and Freedom of Expression into Account
Estelle Derclaye

2. Author’s Right, Copyright and the Public’s Right to Information: A Complex Relationship (Rethinking Copyright in the Light of Fundamental Rights)
Christophe Geiger

3. Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Matrix of Copyright, Cultural Diversity and Human Rights
Christoph Beat Graber

4. Comparative Advertising: The Conflicting Claims of Copyright, Unfair Competition and Freedom of Expression
Jonathan Griffiths

5. Political Economy of Intellectual Property Policy-Making: Theory and Practice – An Observation from a Realistic (and Slightly Cynical) Perspective
Meir Perez Pugatch

PART II: COPYRIGHT AND THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES
6. Copyright Law: A Stakeholders’ Palimpsest
Uma Suthersanen

7. How Technology Changes the Scope, Strength and Usefulness of Copyright: Revisiting the ‘Economic Rationales’ Underpinning Copyright Law in the New Economy
Birgitte Andersen

8. Fertile Ground: Law, Innovation and Creative Technologies
Kathy Bowrey

9. Owning Form, Sharing Content: Natural-Right Copyright and Digital Environment
Maurizio Borghi

Index