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The Future of Copyright Management . European Perspectives
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Battisti, Michèle |
| Copyright Year | 2000 |
| Abstract | First, a few words about the landscape of intellectual property rights in Europe. It is not monolithic and this point is significant. Then, I will speak about the European Community legal policy that relate directly to our activity. With regard to it, I remind you that, when directives are adopted at the Community level, they must then be adapted within the national laws of the various Member States of the European Union. Finally, after this long but essential introduction, I will cover, in the last part, the main evolutions one can expect in the area of copyright and " droit d'auteur " management. I have just used the words "droit d'auteur " , which are words that cannot be translated by that of copyright. As it happens, the field of intellectual property is interpreted in a different way in Europe. They are various historical reasons for this. For example :-In the United Kingdom, it is the dissemination of knowledge that is invoked in the introduction to Queen Ann's Law which dates from the early 18 th century. The priority is given to social worth, and the corporate and impersonal character of the scientific process is what justifies protecting the investment required for its dissemination ;-In France, the land of " droit d'auteur " , the starting point is creative writing, literature, which is no longer that of utilitarian designs. At the end of the 18 th century, the idea that a work is the product of an individual personality will focus on the rights of the author-creator. These differences have consequences and I will now sum them up in a very simplified way. In copyright countries :-The author releases quite all his rights to his work to the rightholder who is usually an investor, responsible for the distribution of the work, and often a corporate body ;-The work is part of common law property. Therefore, touching the rights of the producer can be justified if it is for the common good. This is the theory of "fair dealing", presented very briefly, as it is regulated by very precise authorisations; The theory of copyright rests on the idea of a contract between the author and society, on an economic logic based on the common usefulness of the work. The scope of creation is the profit to the author and the benefit experienced by the public but not the desire to express … |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ifla.org/III/clm/p1/jersalem.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Entity Name Part Qualifier - adopted Html Link Type - copyright Intellectual Disability Intellectual Property Swiss Institute of Comparative Law |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
