Copyright Law: A Handbook of Contemporary Research (Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property)

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Traces the changes undergone and the challenges faced by copyright, as well as its roots and its diversity. This book brings together a group of copyright scholars who analyze a range of issues and aspects of copyright law, and a multiplicity of perspectives on a single topic. Originality in copyright : a solution to the database problem? / John Adams -- Legal issues pertaining to the restoration and reconstitution of manuscripts, sheet music, paintings and films for marketing purposes / Paul Torremans -- A Canadian copyright narrative / Daniel Gervais -- Can and should misappropriation also protect databases? : a comparative approach / Estelle Derclaye -- Database copyright : the story of BHB / Charlotte Waelde -- "Une Chose Publique"? : the author's domain and the public domain in early British, French and US copyright law / Jane Ginsburg -- Draw me a public domain / Valerie-Laure Benabou and Severine Dusollier -- Could multimedia works be protected as a form of audiovisual works? / Irini Stamatoudi -- Adequate protection of folklore : a work in progress / Silke von Lewinski -- Regulating competition by way of copyright limitations and exceptions / Thomas Dreier -- Competition in the field of collective management : preferring "creative competition" to allocative efficiency in European copyright law / Josef Drexl -- Individual and collective management of copyright in a digital environment / Marco Ricolfi -- Copyright law and scientific research / Reto Hilty -- Copyright and freedom of expression in Sweden : private law in a constitutional context / Jan Rosen -- On-line teaching and copyright : any hopes for an EU harmonized playground? / Raquel Xalabarder -- Development of law in Asia : divergence versus convergence : copyright piracy and the prosecution of copyright offences and the adjudication of IP cases : is there a need for a special IP court in Malaysia? / Ida Madieha bt. Abdul Ghani Azmi -- Alternative dispute resolution : a remedy for soothing tensions between technological measures and exceptions? / Brigitte Linder -- Qualitative effects of copyright policies / Antoon Quaedvlieg -- Questioning the principles of territoriality : the determination of territorial mechanisms of commercialization / Paul Torremans -- A broadcasters' treaty? / Tom Rivers