Copyright : sacred text, technology, and the DMCA
"This anthology brings together over a dozen articles published by David Nimmer over the past decade regarding copyright, together with updated commentary weaving together the various threads running through them. The unifying theme running through the work is the need to reconcile standards in order to protect that most ethereal creation of mankind: the written word. From that vantage point the discussion delves into the religious roots and sacred character of the act of creation. Religion and copyright are brought into resonance as issues from one field are deployed to illuminate those in the other. Given its culminating focus on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act this work of necessity drills deeply into current advances in technology, notably the dissemination of works over the Internet. The religious perspective shines an unexpected light onto those issues as well."--Jacket
x, 545 pages
9789041188762, 9041188762
1052823620
Part One: The Challenge of Technology. Ch. 1. Brains and other paraphernalia of the digital age. Part Two: International Roots. Ch. 2. Nation, duration, violation, harmonization: an international copyright proposal for the United States
Ch. 3. Corcovado: renewal's second coming or false Messiah?
Ch. 4. The end of copyright. Part Three: WIPO Treaty Triptych. Ch. 5. A tale of two treaties
Ch. 6. Time and space
Ch. 7. Aus Der Neuen Welt. Part Four: Triumvirate of the Ancients. Ch. 8. Adams and bits: of Jewish kings and copyrights
Ch. 9. An odyssey through copyright's vicarious defenses
Ch. 10. The metamorphosis of contract into expand. Part Five: The Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Ch. 11. Puzzles
Ch. 12. A riff on fair use
Ch. 13. Kisses sweeter than wine
Ch. 14. Back from the future: a proleptic review. Coda: "Thou Shalt Not Steal": A Canon of Construction of Title 17?