Modernizing copyright law for the digital age : constitutional foundations for reform / Randolph J. May, Seth L. Cooper.

"This book examines copyrights and patent rights within the context of America's Constitution and its political economy, and it and tracks key historical developments of those intellectual property (IP) rights. More particularly, the book's primary focus is on copyrights during the 20th and early 21...

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Main Authors: May, Randolph J. (Author)
Cooper, Seth L. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Digital rights management > United States.
Copyright > United States.
Intellectual property > United States.
Constitutional history > United States.
Constitutional history.
Copyright.
Intellectual property.
United States.
Physical Description:xix, 273 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The logic of international intellectual property protection
  • The public contract basis of intellectual property rights
  • Liberty of contract and the free market foundations of intellectual property
  • Intellectual property rights and compulsory licensing
  • The common purposes of intellectual property and antitrust
  • Unalienable rights and alienable intellectual property
  • Modernizing the Copyright Office for the digital age economy
  • Modernizing civil copyright enforcement
  • Modernizing criminal copyright law to combat online piracy
  • Modernizing international agreements to combat copyright infringement.