Copyright Law in the Digital World: Challenges and Opportunities

This book addresses the key issues, challenges and implications arising out of changes in the copyright law and corresponding judicial responses. Using concrete examples, the book does not assume any prior knowledge of copyright law, but brings together leading intellectual property researchers to consider the significant role of copyright law in shaping the needs of the modern digital world. It provides an insight into two distinct arenas: copyright and digital media.

The exponential increase in the ability to multiply and disseminate information by digital means has sparked numerous conflicts pertaining to copyright - and in turn has prompted lawmakers to expand the scope of copyright protection in the digital age. Bearing in mind the new questions that the advent of the digital age has raised on the role and function of copyright, the book presents a collection of papers largely covering new frontiers and changing horizons especially in this area.

The contributions intensively address core issues including the exhaustion principle, copyright and digital media, liability of hosting service providers, the originality requirement, accessibility to published works for the visually disabled, criminalization of copyright infringement, and software protection under copyright law, among others. Consisting of 14 papers, this book will be equally interesting to researchers, policymakers, practitioners and lawmakers, especially those active in the field of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).

1. Idea-expression Dichotomy and Originality requirements for Copyright Protection: An analysis of the jurisprudential underpinnings of the judicial pronouncements in India
2. Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Visually Disabled: Putting an End to Global Book Famine
3. Jurisprudential Analysis of the Rights of the Users in Copyrighted works
4. Database Protection In India: Need For Reforms
5. Reproduction right in the digital medium and free use for educational purpose - An analysis of national and international obligations of India to provide education to all viz.a viz. protecting copyright
6. First Sale Doctrine in the Digital Era
7. Minor Exceptions' Doctrine in national copyright law: Guidance from the WTO Jurisprudence
8. Criminalization of Copyrights infringements in the Digital Era with special reference to India
9. Hosting Service Providers' Liability For Third Party Content: A Malaysian Perspective
10. The Economics of Intellectual Property and Economic Entrepreneurship of Copyrights
11. Software Protection under Copyright Law
12. Copyright, Access And Information Society
13. Copyright and the Digital Media: aPerspective and Challenges in the New Legal Regime in India
14. Copyright and Human Rights : The Quest for a Fair Balance.