Copyright exhaustion : law and policy in the United States and the European Union /

In this timely book, copyright scholar Péter Mezei offers a comprehensive examination of copyright exhaustion, including its historical development, theoretical framework, practical application, and policy considerations. He compares the substantive norms and case law for the first-sale doctrine in...

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Main Author: Mezei, Péter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:Cambridge intellectual property and information law ; 43.
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Online Access:CONNECT
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Summary:In this timely book, copyright scholar Péter Mezei offers a comprehensive examination of copyright exhaustion, including its historical development, theoretical framework, practical application, and policy considerations. He compares the substantive norms and case law for the first-sale doctrine in the United States and in the European Union, covering both analogue and digital applications in detail, and in doing so questions the common rejection of exhaustion in the resale of digital subject matter such as computer programs, sound recordings, audiovisual works, and e-books. Instead, he proposes a digital first-sale doctrine that would offer legal consistency to copyright law and a technologically feasible framework for content producers and consumers. This book should be read by anyone interested in how copyright law continues to evolve in conjunction with the digital world.
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Feb 2018).
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:9781108135290 (ebook)