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Author Mezei, Péter

Title Copyright Exhaustion Law and Policy in the United States and the European Union
Edition 2nd ed
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (272 p.)
Series Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law Ser
Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law Ser
Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Theory of Copyright Exhaustion -- 1.1 Balance in Copyright Law -- 1.2 The Conceptual Elements of Copyright Exhaustion -- 1.3 Policy Considerations of Copyright Exhaustion -- 1.4. The Taxonomy of Copyright Exhaustion -- 1.5 The Doctrine of Exhaustion under International Copyright Law -- 1.5.1 TRIPS Agreement (1994) -- 1.5.2 The WIPO Internet Treaties (1996) -- 1.5.3 The Marrakesh VIP Treaty (2013)
1.6 National, Regional, and International Exhaustion -- 2 The Doctrine of Exhaustion in the Copyright Law of the EU -- 2.1 The Origins of the Doctrine of Exhaustion in the Founding Member States -- 2.2 The First Phase of ECJ Case Law in the 1970s and 1980s -- 2.3 The Green Paper 1988 -- 2.4 Vertical Harmonization (1991-1996) and Special Rules on Exhaustion -- 2.5 Horizontal Harmonization (2001) and General Rules on Exhaustion -- 2.6 The Limitations of the Doctrine of Exhaustion -- 2.6.1 Limited Parallel Importation: The Doctrine of Regional Exhaustion -- 2.6.2 The Droit de Suite
3 The First-Sale Doctrine in the Copyright Law of the US -- 3.1 The Origins of the First-Sale Doctrine -- 3.2 The Development of the First-Sale Doctrine until 1976 -- 3.3 The Challenges of the First-Sale Doctrine after 1976 and the Amendments of the USCA -- 3.3.1 Record Rental Amendment Act -- 3.3.2 Computer Software Rental Amendment Act -- 3.3.3 Video Rentals and the Lack of Amendments -- 3.4 The Limitations of the First-Sale Doctrine -- 3.4.1 Prohibition of Parallel Importation versus First-Sale Doctrine -- 3.4.1.1 The Early Development of Judicial Practice (1983-1998)
3.4.1.2 Let There Be (Some) Light: The Supreme Court Rules on Parallel Imports (1998-2013) -- 3.4.1.2.1 Quality King v. L'anza -- 3.4.1.2.2 Omega v. Costco -- 3.4.1.2.3 John Wiley & Sons v. Kirtsaeng -- 3.4.2 Sporadic Droit de Suit -- 4 Digital Exhaustion in the EU and the US -- 4.1 Case Law on Digital Exhaustion -- 4.1.1 Resale of Computer Programs -- 4.1.1.1 Europe -- 4.1.1.1.1 The UsedSoft Case -- 4.1.1.1.2 Post-UsedSoft Life -- 4.1.1.2 US -- 4.1.2 The Digital Resale of Sound Recordings: The ReDigi Case -- 4.1.3 Resale of Audiobooks and E-Books -- 4.1.4 Resale of Audiovisual Works
4.2 A Critical Analysis of the Case Law on Digital Exhaustion -- 4.2.1 License versus Sale -- 4.2.2 Distribution versus Making Available to the Public -- 4.2.3 The New Copy Theory versus Migration of Files and Forward-and-Delete Technologies -- 4.2.4 Different Subject Matters, Lex Specialis, and the Theory of Functional Equivalence -- 4.2.5 Digital Exhaustion and Territoriality -- 4.3 En Route to Digital Exhaustion? -- 4.3.1 Isn't It Only Hype? -- 4.3.2 Traditional Positivism: A Dead End?
Summary An updated, comprehensive analysis of the European and US approaches to the exhaustion doctrine in the online and offline world
Notes Description based upon print version of record
4.3.3 Constructive Realism: The Economic, Social, and Technological Effects of the Digital Exhaustion Doctrine
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108910811
1108910815