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This book develops a systematic way of implying copyright licences and analyses the existing case law in light of these proposed frameworks to demonstrate how the court's reasoning can be made methodical and transparent, testing the methodology in relation to three essential functions on the internet - browsing, hyperlinking, and indexing.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Conceptual Foundation
- 1.: Copyright Licence as a Legal Relationship
- 2.: Bases for Copyright Licences to be Implied
- 3.: Frameworks for Implying Copyright Licences
- Part II: Rationalising Conceptual Frameworks within Copyright Doctrine
- 4.: Consent-based Implied Bare Licences
- 5.: Consent-based Implied Contractual Licences
- 6.: Licences Implied by Custom
- 7.: Policy-based Implied Contractual Licences
- 8.: Policy-based Implied Bare Licences
- Part III: Application of Implied Copyright Licences to the Internet
- 9.: Implied Licences on the Internet - Fundamentals
- 10.: Browsing and Streaming
- 11.: Hyperlinking
- 12.: Indexing
- Conclusion
About the author
Poorna Mysoor is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Her research lies at the intersection of private law and intellectual property law. She is affiliated to the Queen's College, Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow and as an Academic Member of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre. Poorna has practised intellectual property law in Hong Kong and was a litigator in India.
Summary
This book develops a systematic way of implying copyright licences and analyses the existing case law in light of these proposed frameworks to demonstrate how the court's reasoning can be made methodical and transparent, testing the methodology in relation to three essential functions on the internet - browsing, hyperlinking, and indexing.
