Copyright - What Everyone Needs to Know

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Description
Copyright law was once an esoteric backwater, the special province of professional authors, publishers, and media companies. This is no longer the case. In the age of social media and cloud storage, we have become a copying and sharing culture. Much of our everyday communication, work, and entertainment now directly involves copyright law. copyright law and policy are ferociously contested. Record labels, movie studios, book publishers, newspapers, and many authors rage that those who share music, video, text, and images over the Internet are "stealing" their property. By contract, copyright industry critics celebrate digital technology's potential to make the universe of movies, music, books and art accessible anytime and anywhere—and to empower individuals the world over to express themselves by sharing and remixing those works. These critics argue that excessive copyright enforcement threatens that promise and stifles creativity.
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Contents
I.     Copyright: What it is and What it is Not
II.    The Battles copyright: Overview
III.   Why have Copyright Law
IV.   Fair Use
V.    Current Controversies
VI.   Copyright in the International Arena
VII.  "The Next Great Copyright Act": How Might Copyright Be Reformed
Notes
Further Reading
Index
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Author Details
Neil Weinstock Netanel holds the Pete Kameron endwed Chair in Law at the University of California at Los angeles School of Law. He writes and teaches in the areas of copyright, trademark, and international intellectual property. His recent books included From Maimonides to Microsoft and Copyright's Paradox
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