Copyright and Multimedia Products - A Comparative Analysis

Informationen zum Autor IRINI A. STAMATOUDI is Lecturer in Law at the University of Leicester. Her previous publications include Copyright and the new Digital Environment: The Need to Redesign Copyright (co-edited with P. Torremans, 2000). Zusammenfassung Although multimedia products are highly successful! they are inadequately protected by existing copyright schemes. Stamatoudi considers existing legislation! and chapters treat topics including databases! audiovisual works and computer programs; finally! she offers a model for a European legislative solution. This will interest academics! students! practitioners and copyright policy makers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Placing multimedia products within the scope of copyright; 2. The scope of multimedia works; 3. Traditional literary works; 4. Collections and compilations; 5. Databases; 6. Audiovisual works; 7. Computer programs; 8. Video games as a test case; 9. Multimedia products and existing categories of copyright works; 10. A regime of protection for multimedia products; 11. Conclusion; Postscript; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Irina Stamatoudi, Irini A. Stamatoudi, Irini A. (University of Leicester) Stamatoudi
• Assisted by: William R. Cornish (Editor), Francois Dessemontet (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2001
• EAN: 9780521808194
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80819-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Intellect
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law