Copyright, Property and the Social Contract : The Reconceptualisation of Copyright

This book provides international perspectives on the law of copyright in relation to three core themes - copyright and developing countries; the government and copyright; and technology and the future of copyright. The third theme includes an examination of the extent to which technology will dictate the development of the law, and a re-examination of the role of copyright in fostering innovation and creativity. As a critique, one chapter discusses how certain rights can create or reinforce social inequality under copyright royalty systems. Underlying these themes is the role the law of copyright has in encouraging or impeding human flourishing.-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Copyright Legacy and Developing Countries: Important Lessons for Nigeria’s Emerging Copyright Reform (Adebambo Adewopo)....Pages 3-26 Embracing Open Policies to Enable Access to Information: The Edo State Open Data Portal (Kunle Ola)....Pages 27-44 Copyright in the Palestinian Territories: Setting the Scene (Rawan Al-Tamimi)....Pages 45-71 Copyright Law in Indonesia: From a Hybrid to an Endogenous System? (Christoph Antons)....Pages 73-88 Copyright and (Dis)harmonisation: Can Developing Nations Prioritise Their Own Public Good in a Global Copyright Hegemony? (Mark Perry)....Pages 89-101 Front Matter ....Pages 103-103 Australia-US Copyright Relations: An Unhurried View of the Reciprocal Protection of Literary Works (John Gilchrist)....Pages 105-135 The Adoption of the American Model of Fair Use in the UAE Copyright Law (Rami Olwan)....Pages 137-155 Digitising the Public Domain: Non Original Photographs in Comparative EU Copyright Law (Thomas Margoni)....Pages 157-180 Front Matter ....Pages 181-181 Copyright in the Age of Access (Brian Fitzgerald)....Pages 183-191 The Royalties System and Paratrophic Copyright (Benedict Atkinson)....Pages 193-225 Copyright According to Google (Joanne Gray)....Pages 227-239 Dead Cats in the Mail: Dallas Buyers Club and the Emergence of the User in Australian Intermediary Copyright Law (Kylie Pappalardo, Carrick Brough)....Pages 241-264 The Making Available Right: Problems with “the Public” (Cheryl Foong)....Pages 265-285 Back Matter ....Pages 287-288 "This book provides international perspectives on the law of copyright in relation to three core themes: copyright and developing countries; the government and copyright; and technology and the future of copyright. The third theme includes an examination of the extent to which technology will dictate the development of the law, and a re-examination of the role of copyright in fostering innovation and creativity. As a critique, one chapter discusses how certain rights can create or reinforce social inequality under copyright royalty systems. Underlying these themes is the role the law of copyright has in encouraging or impeding human flourishing"--Back cover