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Breves Notas Sobre Traducción Y Derecho De Autor, Maximiliano Marzetti

Maximiliano Marzetti

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The Role Of Levies In Canada's Digital Music Market , Jeremy F. De Beer

Jeremy de Beer

Parties not directly involved in the use of copyright-protected music have increasingly become the targets of established or proposed schemes to provide revenues for the music industry. It has been suggested that rather than obtaining payments directly from consumers or distributors of digital music in exchange for licenses to use or transmit that music, levies should be imposed on the goods and services of third parties, such as recording media, digital devices and/or Internet access. This paper considers whether levies are an appropriate way to deal with the challenges and opportunities that are arising in Canada's digital music market.

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Constitutional Jurisdiction Over Paracopyright Laws , Jeremy F. De Beer

Jeremy de Beer

This paper considers whether the Government of Canada's proposed legislation addressing technological protection measures and rights management information would be constitutionally valid federal law and examines the provinces' role in the debate over these copyright reforms. The Constitution allocates exclusive legislative responsibility for various matters to either the federal or provincial governments. The constitutionality of the proposed provisions turns on their pith and substance, which seems to involve technological and contractual controls over terms of distribution of digital materials. For a list of reasons, qualifications on the legal effects, intended to tether the legislation to existing copyright doctrine, may not …

A Network Effects Perspective On Software Piracy, Ariel Katz

Ariel Katz

The software industry frequently maintains that software piracy is no more than theft and a cause of huge losses. Courts and other policy makers easily adopt that straightforward argument. Surprisingly, however, many software publishers do not employ any technological measures to protect their software from piracy and many popular software products are distributed without any means of protection and are easily pirated. This lack of protection is puzzling; a solution for that puzzle is the focus of the article. The first part of the article challenges the conventional explanations that are usually given for the failure to protect software and …

Women In The Web Of Secondary Copyright Liability And Internet Filtering, Ann Bartow

Ann Bartow

This Essay suggests possible explanations for why there is not very much legal scholarship devoted to gender issues on the Internet; and it asserts that there is a powerful need for Internet legal theorists and activists to pay substantially more attention to the gender-based differences in communicative style and substance that have been imported from real space to cyberspace. Information portals, such as libraries and web logs, are "gendered" in ways that may not be facially apparent. Women are creating and experiencing social solidarity online in ways that male scholars and commentators do not seem to either recognize or deem …

Davidson & Associates, Inc. V. Internet Gateway, Inc. ("Bnetd"), Eighth Circuit, Brief Of Amici Curiae Consumers Union And Public Knowledge In Support Of Internet Gateway, Inc., Tim Jung, Ross Combs And Rob Crittenden, Laura Quilter, Jennifer Urban, Deirdre Mulligan

Laura Quilter

Amicus brief to the Eighth Circuit.

Davidson & Associates, Inc. V. Internet Gateway, Inc. ("Bnetd"), Eighth Circuit, Brief Of Amici Curiae Consumers Union And Public Knowledge In Support Of Internet Gateway, Inc., Tim Jung, Ross Combs And Rob Crittenden, Laura Quilter, Jennifer Urban, Deirdre Mulligan

Jennifer M. Urban

Beyond Napster: Debating The Future Of Copyright On The Internet - Panel Three: New Business Models, Regulatory Options And The Future Of Copyright On The Internet, Ann Bartow

Ann Bartow

This article presents a panel discussion concerning the future of copyright on the internet. The panel convened in Washington, D. C. on Thursday, November 16, 2000, and was moderated by Joshua J. Kaufman of Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti. The panelists included Ann Bartow (University of South Carolina School of Law), Edward J. Black (Computer & Communications Industry Association), Philip S. Corwin (Butera & Andrews), Brian Hecht (enews.com), Keith Kupferschmid (Software Information Industry Association), Bennett Lincoff (Darby & Darby), and David Pakman (myplay.com). The panel discussed the internet business models of the future and how the piracy problems created by …

The Belgian Copyright Act Finally Revamped With The Implementation Of The Copyright Directive (2001/29): The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, Estelle Derclaye

Estelle Derclaye

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