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A comprehensive commentary on the international framework concerned with the protection of copyright and neighbouring rights. The focal point of this commentary is the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 1886, but the treatment extends beyond to the related conventions that have grown out of, or are based on, Berne.
List of contents
- I: History and Development of International Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Conventions
- 1: The Development of International Copyright Relations
- 2: Origins of the Berne Convention
- 3: The Subsequent Development of the Berne Convention, 1886-1971
- 4: Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Come of Age: Digitization and International Trade
- II: Preliminary Matters: Berne and Related Agreements in the Framework of Public International Law
- 5: Treaty Interpretation and the Concept of Union
- III: The Berne Convention and Beyond
- 6: Fundamentals of Protection
- 7: Authorship and Ownership
- 8: Works Protected by the Convention
- 9: Duration of Protection
- 10: The Rights Protected by the Convention
- 11: The Rights of Reproduction, Adaptation, and Distribution
- 12: Rights of Communication to the Public
- 13: Restrictions on the Exercise of Rights: Limitations and Exceptions
- 14: New International Obligations
- 15: Developing Countries
- 16: Administrative and Financial Provisions
- 17: Membership, Territory, and Application of the Berne Convention and Later Agreements
- IV: Other Conventions on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights
- 18: The Berne Convention and other Related International Conventions on Copyright
- 19: The Berne Convention and Neighbouring Rights
- V: Private International Law Aspects of International Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Protection
- 20: Private International Law Matters: Jurisdiction and Applicable Law
About the author
Sam Ricketson has taught, researched, published and practised in the area of intellectual property law since the late 1970's. His interests are both at the national and international levels, with other interests in legal history, the history of science and technology and public and private international law. Prior to his retirement in April 2019, he was a professor in the Melbourne Law School and prior to this at Monash University, and he also practised part-time at the Victorian Bar until mid-2015. He Is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Academy of Law, and is now Emeritus Professor of Law at the Melbourne Law School.
Jane C. Ginsburg, is the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia University School of Law, and Faculty Director of its Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts. She teaches copyright law, international copyright law, trademarks law, legal methods, and statutory interpretation, and is an author of casebooks in all five subjects, as well as of many books, articles and book chapters on domestic and international copyright and trademark law. She is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the American Philosophical Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.
Summary
A comprehensive commentary on the international framework concerned with the protection of copyright and neighbouring rights. The focal point of this commentary is the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 1886, but the treatment extends beyond to the related conventions that have grown out of, or are based on, Berne.
