Cambridge Handbook of Copyright Limitations and Exceptions

While copyright law is ordinarily thought to consist primarily of exclusive rights, the regime's various exemptions and immunities from liability for copyright infringement form an integral part of its functioning, and serve to balance copyright's grant of a private benefit to authors/creators with the broader public interest. With contributors from all over the world, this handbook offers a systematic, thorough study of copyright limitations and exceptions adopted in major jurisdictions, including the United States, the European Union, and China. In addition to providing justifications for these limitations, the chapters compare differences and similarities that exist in major jurisdictions and offer suggestions about how to improve the enforcement of copyright limitations domestically and globally. This work should appeal to scholars, policymakers, attorneys, teachers, judges, and students with an interest in the theories, policies, and doctrines of copyright law.

Shyamkrishna Balganesh is a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. His scholarship focuses on understanding how intellectual property and innovation policy can benefit from the use of ideas, concepts, and structures from different areas of the common law, especially private law.

Wee Loon Ng-Loy is a Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law of National University of Singapore. Her main research interests are in the field of intellectual property (IP) law. She is the author of Law of Intellectual Property of Singapore, 2nd edition (2014).

Haochen Sun is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Technology Center at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. He has won the HKU Faculty of Law Research Output Prize twice, and is the co-editor of The Luxury Economy and Intellectual Property (2015).