Copyright and Free Speech: Comparative and International Analyses - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199276048 ISBN 13: 9780199276042

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Written by a team of leading scholars and practitioners, this book analyzes the potential for interaction and conflict between copyright and free speech. Recent examples include the series of First Amendment challenges that have been brought against the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Ashdown v. Telegraph Group in the UK. The analysis draws upon a wide variety of viewpoints and jurisdictions to provide a sustained study of the subject suitable for use by both practitioners and academics.

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About the Author

Jonathan Griffiths is a qualified solicitor and from 1993 to 2000 he was employed as a lecturer and senior lecturer at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University. He joined the Department of Law at Queen Mary, University of London, in January 2001. His research interests are in the areas of intellectual property (particularly copyright law), and media and information law. Uma Suthersanen is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. She is an Executive Committee Member of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale, Executive Committee Member of the British Literary and Artistic Copyright Association, and a Committee Member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the British Computer Society.

Review

`Its contributors include a number of world-renowned experts in both strands of law, including Professor Eric Barendt, Raymond T Nimmer, Ysolde Gendreau, Wendy Gordon and Jeremy Phillips, with a foreword by the Right Honourable Lord r stice Jacob... the book is a substantial collection of
papers by authors of distinction on a fascinating subject. The scholarship distilled is impressive and the reader cannot but learn and be fascinated by the topic...It is not a textbook by any means, but an interesting reflection on how copyright is evolving in the digital world and with new and
widening concerns about human rights: both comparatively recent phenomena in the common law worldIt has been skilfully edited and well indexed to make it of great value to researchers. It is a book which can be read with interest in its entirety and would be a useful addition to any law library'
Robyn Durie, Convergence

`...the Oxford University Press publication is without doubt the better collection...the Oxford collection provides us with an ultimately richer and more rewarding read, and precisely because the essays and commentaries therein rub against and spark off each other...the editors involved in
producing both collections are to be congratulated. Nevertheless, as suggested by the all too brief commentary above, it is Griffiths and Suthersanen to whom the warmest plaudits must go.'
Ronan Deazley (University of Durham), European Intellectual Property Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0199276048
• ISBN 13: 9780199276042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 476
• Editor: Griffiths Jonathan, Suthersanen Uma