Copyright user rights : contracts and the erosion of property / Pascale Chapdelaine, BCL, LLB, LLM, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Windsor, Faculty of Law of the Bar of Ontario and le Barreau du Québec.

The author defines what copyright user rights are and should be, and why. Addresses contemporary issues of tangibility and intangibility in copyright law, with reference to new kinds of copyright works such as e-books, iTunes, online software, digital-release films. "[This book offers] an in-depth i...

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Main Author: Chapdelaine, Pascale (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Physical Description:xxiii, 230 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part I. In Search of Copyright User Rights
  • 1. User rights to commercial copies of copyright works
  • 2. The nature and function of exceptions to copyright infringement
  • 3. In search of copyright user remedies
  • Part II. Rethinking Tangibility and Intangibility
  • 4. Redefining goods, services, sales, and licences
  • 5. First sale or exhaustion doctrine
  • 6. Digital locks, physical objects, and immaterial works
  • Part III. Rethinking User Rights Through Property, Rights, and Privileges
  • 7. Why user rights?
  • 8. User property, user rights, and user privileges
  • One last word.