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Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights 3rd ed

Edited by: Daniel Gervais

ISBN13: 9789041154415
Previous Edition ISBN: 9789041127242
Published: December 2015
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Country of Publication: The Netherlands
Format: Hardback
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In the course of the last two decades, collective management organizations (CMOs) have become the nerve centres of copyright licensing in virtually every country. Their expertise and knowledge of copyright law and management have proven essential to make copyright work in the digital age.

All the chapters have been updated since the 2010 edition. New chapters on Africa, China, Central Europe and New Zealand (together with Australia, which is no longer discussed in the separate chapter on Canada) have been added

Factors considered include the following:-

  • role of 'families' such as the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) and the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations (IFRRO);
  • cases where the unavailability of adequate licensing options makes authorized use difficult or impossible taking transaction costs into account;
  • growing importance of extended repertoire systems (also known as extended collective licensing);
  • relationship among collective management, rights to remuneration, and the ways in which CMOs acquire authority to license;
  • transnational licensing and the possible role of multi-territorial licensing; and
  • threat of monopolies or regional oligopolies for the management of online music rights.
Legal underpinnings covered in the course of the analysis include the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaties, the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Napster case, the Santiago Agreement, relevant EU Papers and the 2014 Copyright Directive, and work done by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Part I presents a number of horizontal issues that affect collective management in almost every country. Part II is divided on a geographical basis, focusing on systems representative of the principal models applied in various countries and regions. Each country specific or region-specific chapter provides a historical overview and a presentation of existing CMOs and their activities, gives financial information where available, describes how CMOs are supervised or controlled by legislation, and offers thoughts about the challenges facing CMOs in the country or region concerned. Many of these national and regional commentaries are the only such information sources available in English.

Whatever the future of copyright holds, it is clear that users will continue to want access and the ability to reuse material lawfully, and authors and other rights holders will want to ensure that they can put some reasonable limits on those uses, including an ability to monetize commercially relevant uses. CMOs are sure to be critical intermediaries in this process.

The second edition of this important resource, with its key insights into the changing nature of collective management, will be of immeasurable value to all concerned with shaping policy towards collective management or working with the ever more complex legal issues arising in digital age copyright matters.

Subjects:
Intellectual Property Law
Contents:
PART I Transnational Issues.
CHAPTER 1 Collective Management of Copyright: Theory and Practice in the Digital Age Daniel Gervais.
CHAPTER 2 Collective Rights Management from the Viewpoint of International Treaties, with Special Attention to the EU ‘Acquis’ Mihály Ficsor.
CHAPTER 3 Collective Management of Copyrights and Human Rights: An Uneasy Alliance Revisited Laurence R. Helfer.

PART II Europe.
CHAPTER 4 Collective Management in Central and Eastern Europe Mihály Ficsor & Mitko Chatalbashev.
CHAPTER 5 Collective Management in the European Union Lucie Guibault & Stef van Gompel.
CHAPTER 6 Collective Management of Copyright in France Sylvie Nérisson .
CHAPTER 7 Collective Rights Management in Germany Jörg Reinbothe.
CHAPTER 8 Collective Management in the Nordic Countries Tarja Koskinen-Olsson & Vigdís Sigurdardóttir.

PART III The Americas.
CHAPTER 9 Collective Management in Canada Mario Bouchard.
CHAPTER 10 Collective Management of Copyright in Latin America Karina Correa Pereira.
CHAPTER 11 Copyright Collectives and Collecting Societies: The United States Experience Glynn Lunney.

PART IV Other Regions.
CHAPTER 12 Collective Management in Africa J. Joel Baloyi & Tana Pistorius .;
CHAPTER 13 Collective Management in China Fuxiao Jiang & Daniel Gervais .
CHAPTER 14 Collective Management of Copyright and Neighbouring Rights in Japan Koji Okumura.
CHAPTER 15 Collective Management and the Copyright Tribunals of New Zealand and Australia Susy; Frankel.
Index.