Copyright : sacred text, technology, and the DMCA / David Nimmer.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nimmer, David
Language:English
Published: The Hague ; New York : Frederick, MD : Kluwer Law International ; Sold and distributed in North, Central, and South America by Aspen Publishers, [2003], ©2003.
Subjects:
Copyright and electronic data processing > United States.
United States. > Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Physical Description:545 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part one: the challenge of technology
  • Brains and other paraphernalia of the digital age
  • Part two: international roots
  • Nation, duration, violation, harmonization: an international copyright proposal for the United States
  • Corcovado: renewal's second coming or false messiah?
  • The end of copyright
  • Part three: WIPO Treaty triptych
  • A tale of two treaties
  • Time and space
  • Aus der neuen Welt
  • Part four: triumvirate of the ancients
  • Adams and bits: of Jewish kings and copyrights
  • An odyssey through copyright's vicarious defenses
  • The metamorphosis of contract into expand
  • Part five: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
  • Puzzles
  • A riff on fair use
  • Kisses sweeter than wine
  • Back from the future: a proleptic review
  • Coda: "thou shalt not steal": a canon of construction of Title 17?