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Written by two of the most esteemed experts of copyright law in the United States and Europe, this volume surveys and analyzes the legal doctrines affecting copyright practice around the world, in both transactional and litigation settings.
List of contents
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS
- JOURNALS
- PART I Principles of International Copyright
- CHAPTER 1 Introduction
- CHAPTER 2 The Legal Traditions
- CHAPTER 3 The Norms of International Copyright
- CHAPTER 4 Territoriality, National Treatment, Jurisdiction, and Conflict of Laws
- CHAPTER 5 Scope and Points of Attachment of International Protection
- PART II Substantive Copyright Law
- CHAPTER 6 Subject Matter of Copyright and Neighboring Rights
- CHAPTER 7 Authorship and Ownership
- CHAPTER 8 Term of Protection
- CHAPTER 9 Economic Rights
- CHAPTER 10 Moral Rights
- CHAPTER 11 Exemptions, Statutory Licenses, and Other Limitations on Exclusive Rights
- CHAPTER 12 Enforcement
- APPENDICES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
About the author
Paul Goldstein currently serves as Of Counsel at Morrison & Foerster in their intellectual property group and has been regularly included in Best Lawyers in America. He has served as chairman of the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel on Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information, has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright, and Competition Law in Munich, Germany, and was a founding faculty member of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center. In addition, before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1975, he was a professor of law at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School.
P. Bernt Hugenholtz is Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam (IViR). In 1989 he received his doctor's degree cum laude from the University of Amsterdam, where he defended his thesis on copyright protection of
works of facts. He has written numerous books, studies and articles on a variety of topics involving copyright, information technology, new media and the Internet. At the University of Amsterdam he teaches courses in copyright law, international copyright law and industrial property law. He was a member of the Amsterdam Bar and partner of the law firm Stibbe between 1990 and 1998. Since 2003 he has been a deputy judge at the Court of Appeal in Arnhem.
Summary
Written by two of the most esteemed experts of copyright law in the United States and Europe, this volume surveys and analyzes the legal doctrines affecting copyright practice around the world, in both transactional and litigation settings.
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Whilst providing comprehensive coverage of all the global topics around copyright, the book is written in an easily accessible manner, explaining complex issues in an understandable way, with helpful headings to be able to locate a particular subject area efficiently. ... This book will be of particular use to copyright lawyers and practitioners working with international licenses, agreements or litigation, or dealing with oversees exploitation. Academics, researchers and students looking at the international copyright system will find this to be an exhaustive resource.
