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Copyright and Free Speech: Comparative and International Analysis


ISBN13: 9780199276042
ISBN: 0199276048
Published: March 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
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Written by a team of leading scholars and practitioners in the fields of copyright and free speech, this work analyses the potential for interaction and conflict between the two rights.

Free speech is the lifeblood of any democracy. As John Stuart Mill stated, ""In government, perfect freedom of discussion in all its modes - speaking, writing, and printing - in law and in fact is the first requisite of good because the first condition of popular intelligence and mental progress."" (Letter by John Stuart Mill, 18 March, 1840) Copyright, on the other hand, represent a property regime which protects human creativity as manifested in all types of expressions such as literary works,;paintings and music. Both these notions, copyright and free speech, are united in the fact of their recognition as fundamental freedoms of all individuals within the national, regional and international framework of human rights. However, the rights are also antithetical in nature, giving rise to;both political and jurisprudential tensions.

These tensions have become recently accentuated by the advent of legislative developments. Both in the United States and within the European Union, legal commentators argue that recent copyright legislation has paid insufficient regard to free speech. This concern is underlined by the series of First Amendment challenges that have been brought against the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The recent causes celebres not only highlight the antagonistic relationship between;copyright and free speech but also prominently depict the potential conflict between public and private interests in information - the Dead Sea Scrolls decision (Israel), the Wind Done Gone, Eldred and DeCSS cases (United States) and the Hyde Park v Yelland and Ashdown v Telegraph Group (United Kingdom). A further query which requires attention is the impact of the growing significance of international copyright law for the developing world.

The raised profile of these conflicts has resulted in an increasing amount of attention from academe and the legal profession. Some of the authors of this volume have made influential contributions and are directly involved, both legally and politically, in the debate. There has, however, been no sustained study of the conflict across a variety of different jurisdictions. This book addresses the copyright/free speech relationship within a comparative and international legal framework.

Subjects:
Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Intellectual Property Law
Contents:
Preface
1. Introduction
PART A: MAPPING THE CONFLICT
2. Copyright and free speech theory
3. Commodification and cultural ownership
4. Copyright norms and the problem of private censorship
5. Towards an international public interest rule? Human rights and international copyright law
PART B: NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
6. Copyright and the First Amendment
7. Copyright, the public interest and freedom of speech
8. The impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on United Kingdom copyright law
9. Not such a 'timid thing' - the UK's integrity right and freedom of expression
10. Canadian copyright law and its Charters
11. Copyright and freedom of political communication in Australia
12. Freedom of expression and copyright under the civil law
13. Copyright and free speech in transition: the Russian experience
PART C: THE DIGITAL WORLD
14. First Amendment speech and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: a proper marriage
15. Contracting out of copyright in the Information Society - the impact on freedom of expression
16. Databases, the Human Rights Act and EU law