Copyfight - The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform

Blayne Haggart follows the WIPO treaties from negotiation to implementation from the perspective of three countries: the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

1: A Most Unlikely Debate

2: An Historical-Institutionalist Framework for Analysing Copyright Policymaking

3: The Political Economy of Copyright

4: The United States, the Internet Treaties, and the Setting of the Digital-Copyright Agenda

5: 1993-1996: U.S. Copyright Reform and the WIPO Internet Treatise

6: 1997-1998: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act

7: Canada and the Internet Treatise: Aborted Implementations

8: Mexico and the Internet Treatise, 1996-2010: International Pressure, Domestic Politics

Conclusion: The New Politics of Copyright and the Potential for Variation

Notes

References

Index

About the author

By Blayne Haggart

Summary

Blayne Haggart follows the WIPO treaties from negotiation to implementation from the perspective of three countries: the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Product details

• Authors: Blayne Haggart
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2014
• EAN: 9781442614543
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-1454-3
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy; Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy; Studies in Comparative Politic
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law