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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Copyright law"”.
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Digital technology and copyright law
… may extract its economic value. Current American copyright law draws mainly from this concept; it has been constructed through history by negotiation between various established economic interests. Information Freedom is a competing ideology which has been successful in the software community. It …
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The role of regional organisations in international copyright law
… play for the implementation of the international copyright protection framework in their member states. This is done in order to gain an increased understanding of the impact that international and regional agreements have on national copyright legislation and its enforcement through national and …
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Metaphors and Norms - Understanding Copyright Law in a Digital Society
This is a compilation thesis in the sociology of law, which analyses copyright law in three steps; the legal norms, the social norms and the underlying conceptions in their metaphorical representation. These three steps assist in answering the overarching question: "How do legal and social norms …
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A critical analysis of the intersection between copyright law and artificial intelligence
… between artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright law, focusing on two main aspects: AI's use of copyrighted works for training purposes (AI inputs) and AI's generation of new works that may be eligible for copyright protection (AI outputs). The central research question of this thesis …
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Copyright law and postmodern art : reconciling property in mass media with democracy
… thesis is an analysis of the conflict between copyright law and postmodern appropriational artforms such as audio-visual collage. By looking at the philosophic foundations of copyright, authorship and property, and then surveying the current law of copyright and the reasoning of the judiciaries …
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Moral Rights in Copyright Law: Personality, the Self, & the Author-Work Relation
Moral rights in copyright law are noneconomic rights that entitle the author to control how the author is divulged, modified, and attributed. They are based on the idea that each author alone stands in a special relation (“Relation A”) to her work by virtue of creating it. Despite the quite …
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The European Union and its efforts concerning the harmonisation of copyright law
… all need to be based on a solid ground of EU-laws, which are applied and enforced in every Member State. This so important because otherwise the measures taken by the EU institutions are completely useless. That leads to the observation that in every area of conflicts due to the application of …
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The Meaning and Requirements of the Misuse Doctrine in Patent and Copyright Law
… which is based on the ultimate purpose of IP law and policies, and distinguished from antitrust principles. Placing limitations on the exercise of IP rights has generated several overlapping limiting theories that have been incorporated into various areas of IP law. However, the requirements …
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Transatlantic trade partnerships and their consequences on copyright law: from global to regional
… and enforcement of intellectual property law are fundamental to stimulate innovation and to compete in the global economy. Copyright law is not very involved in trade agreements, in which there is more space about other intellectual property rights, such as patents, geographical …
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Continually evolving technologies: does South African copyright law adequately protect AI generated works?
… ordinarily be categorised as works eligible for copyright under international and domestic copyright legislation, are created. This unprecedented technological advancement in the ability of AI systems to generate creative outputs has sparked controversy within copyright law because of traditional …
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Towards an Understanding of the Distinction Between Limitations and Exceptions in International Copyright Law
The topic of copyright limitations and exceptions attracts extensive jurisprudence and academic commentary. However, the terms ‘limitations’ and ‘exceptions’ remain undefined in international copyright law. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has offered three conflicting …
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Abezimu/Badimo (ancestors) and copyright law: from the Decolonial Turn to the pluriversal author
… and Black Marxism to study the essence of copyright law's authorship from the perspective of people on the other side of Western modernity. The basic contention of this thesis, and its original contribution to the corpus of literature as regards authorship in copyright, is that the logical …
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Digital copyright law: exploring the changing interface between copyright and regulation in the digital environment
… and clarify the changing interface between copyright law and other forms of regulation in the digital environment, in the context of recorded music. This is in order to explain the problems that rightsholders have had in tackling the issue of unauthorised copyright infringement facilitated …
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Liability for Disseminating in the Digital Age: Copyright Law and Hyperlinking on the World Wide Web
… hyperlinks may also be utilised to enable copyright infringement.2 Copyright protected works may be disseminated on the internet without the authorisation of the copyright owner using hyperlinks. Accordingly, effective legal rules are necessary to not only safeguards the rights of copyright …
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BALANCING FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, INNOVATION AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN COPYRIGHT LAW: THE CASE OF GENERATIVE AI MODELS
… a fundamental tension within the human-centric copyright framework, which is built around the anthropocentric standard of the “author’s own intellectual creation.” Under this framework, autonomously generated outputs are ineligible for protection as copyright requires a human creator capable of …
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An Assessment for the Need to Review the Tanzanian Copyright Law to Tackle Modern Day Piracy Challenges
This research analyses the effectiveness of the copyright law and system in the modern day piracy. The work is built on the hypothesis that the current copyright law is inefficient to tackle the modern day’s piracy. This is because of the various shortfalls noted in the act. The shortfalls are …
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Skin-deep: The copyrightability of tattoos and addressing the ambiguity of South African Copyright Law on tattoos
… inked into your skin, namely a tattoo. Although copyright law is an established and codified field of law, there are a few novel sub-categories that remain equivocal and unaddressed by South African courts. As a result of an erratic, expeditiously evolving society, new fields emerge and become …
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Skin-deep: The copyrightability of tattoos and addressing the ambiguity of South African Copyright Law on tattoos
… inked into your skin, namely a tattoo. Although copyright law is an established and codified field of law, there are a few novel sub-categories that remain equivocal and unaddressed by South African courts. As a result of an erratic, expeditiously evolving society, new fields emerge and become …
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