Formalities in Copyright Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Formalities in Copyright Law write by Stef van Gompel. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Formalities in Copyright Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines whether reintroducing copyright formalities is legally feasible. Based on a comprehensive and thorough analysis of copyright formalities, it sets out to establish the extent to which the current copyright system allows for their reintroduction. To this end, the author describes the role and functions of formalities, revisits the history of formalities at the national and international levels, examines the scope of the international prohibition on formalities, and scrutinizes the rationales behind this prohibition, including an in-depth examination of the validity of the argument that copyright is a 'natural right' and therefore should be protected independently of formalities. The author skilfully evaluates and contrasts the conflicting theories according to which formalities, on the one hand, add legal certainty to claims on the ownership of property, and, on the other, hamper individual authors from seeking adequate protection for their works. This book makes an important contribution to legal science by answering questions that so far have been neglected or only marginally addressed. To the degree that current copyright law permits reintroducing formalities, the author posits the specifications that will determine to a great extent what role and functions they may eventually fulfil: depending on the aims to be achieved, lawmakers must choose which types of formalities shall be imposed, and what their legal consequences shall be. This book goes a long way towards reinforcing the foundation for those decisions.
United States Code
United States Code - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook United States Code write by United States. This book was released on 2013. United States Code available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The United States Code is the official codification of the general and permanent laws of the United States of America. The Code was first published in 1926, and a new edition of the code has been published every six years since 1934. The 2012 edition of the Code incorporates laws enacted through the One Hundred Twelfth Congress, Second Session, the last of which was signed by the President on January 15, 2013. It does not include laws of the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session, enacted between January 2, 2013, the date it convened, and January 15, 2013. By statutory authority this edition may be cited "U.S.C. 2012 ed." As adopted in 1926, the Code established prima facie the general and permanent laws of the United States. The underlying statutes reprinted in the Code remained in effect and controlled over the Code in case of any discrepancy. In 1947, Congress began enacting individual titles of the Code into positive law. When a title is enacted into positive law, the underlying statutes are repealed and the title then becomes legal evidence of the law. Currently, 26 of the 51 titles in the Code have been so enacted. These are identified in the table of titles near the beginning of each volume. The Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives continues to prepare legislation pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 285b to enact the remainder of the Code, on a title-by-title basis, into positive law. The 2012 edition of the Code was prepared and published under the supervision of Ralph V. Seep, Law Revision Counsel. Grateful acknowledgment is made of the contributions by all who helped in this work, particularly the staffs of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel and the Government Printing Office"--Preface.
The Public Domain
The Public Domain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Public Domain write by Stephen Fishman. This book was released on 2000. The Public Domain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explains how to find and use creative works without permission or fees, describing how to recognize whether or not a work is in the public domain.
Formalities in Copyright Law
Formalities in Copyright Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Formalities in Copyright Law write by Stef Johan Gompel. This book was released on 2011. Formalities in Copyright Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Realist Approach to Copyright Law's Formalities
A Realist Approach to Copyright Law's Formalities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Realist Approach to Copyright Law's Formalities write by Michael W. Carroll. This book was released on 2014. A Realist Approach to Copyright Law's Formalities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rejecting the conventional story that formalities in copyright law were abolished by the Berne Convention, this Article demonstrates that privately administered systems of formalities play a significant role in the administration of copyright law worldwide. Indeed, they must because copyright is designed to support a transaction structure which requires rightsholders who seek to attract licensing partners to go through some formal step to identify themselves and the works in which they have a legal or beneficial interest. Canvassing the landscape of mandatory and voluntary public and private systems of formalities, this article argues that: (1) national policymakers retain more policy authority under Berne to impose certain formal requirements on rightsholders than those with a formalist understanding of public formalities argue; (2) private systems of formalities are extensive, economically significant, but are not interoperable with each other in many cases and with voluntary registries and other voluntary public formalities systems; and (3) policymakers should use a mix of approaches to improve the functioning of both public and private formalities systems by promoting or requiring transparency, efficiency, and interoperability in their design and administration.
