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The eleventh edition of Copyright Law includes significant updates reflecting recent legislation, new judicial precedents, and updates to Copyright Office rules. Major changes include revision of the useful articles section in the wake of Star Athletica, revisions of the sections on music to reflect the Music Modernization Act, and updates throughout the book to reflect significant federal appellate decisions. Some illustrations have been updated or supplemented to reflect these changes in the law. ; https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/faculty_books/1455/thumbnail.jpg

This Intellectual Property Supplement from eLangdell Press contains the text of federal laws and regulations in the area of copyright, trademarks and patents. The editors have endeavored to gather all relevant laws, rules and regulations. This collection is intended to be used primarily as a statutory supplement for law students and legal scholars in academic settings, although practitioners in this area of law will also find it useful.This volume, Volume 1: Copyright Statutory Law contains the text of Title 17 of the United States Code as it appears on the most current edition available on the U.S. Government website FDSYS. Updates to the U.S. Code not yet found in the FDSYS published editions can be found in the United States House of Representatives Office of Law Revision Counsel's Classification Tables. They can be found at http://uscode.house.gov/classification/tables.shtml. Some formatting modification has been performed to better accommodate electronic readers.

This article offers an overview of copyright in general in common law and civil law countries, with an emphasis on the U.S. and the European Union. It addresses the history and philosophies of copyright (authors' right), subject matter of copyright (including the requirement of fixation and the exclusion of "ideas"), formalities, initial ownership and transfers of title, duration, exclusive moral and economic rights (including reproduction, adaptation, public performance and communication and making available to the public, distribution and exhaustion of the distribution right), exceptions and limitations (including fair use), and remedies. The article also covers the liability of intermediaries, and new copyright obligations concerning technological protections and copyright management information. It concludes with some observations concerning the role of copyright in promoting creativity and free expression.

List of Abbreviations --Introduction --The Legal Foundations of European Copyright Law --The European Legislator's Strategy in the Field of Copyright Harmonization --The Plurality of Legal Systems in Copyright Law: An Obstacle to a European Codification? --CJEU Policy and Practice in the Field of European Copyright Law --The Foundations of the Concept of Work in European Copyright Law --The Acquis Communautaire in the Area of Copyright and Related Rights: Economic Rights --Defining the Scope of Protection of Copyright in the EU: The Need to Reconsider the Acquis regarding Limitations and Exceptions --Duration of Copyright and Related Rights --Enforcement of IPRs --Authorship and Ownership: Authors, Entrepreneurs and Rights --Moral Rights --Copyright Contracts --An Essential Brick in the Building of European Copyright: Regulation of Copyright Transactions --The Legal Struggle in the EU against Online Piracy --Interoperability and European Copyright Law Codification --The Perspective of the Introduction of a European Fair Use Clause --The Wittem Group's European Copyright Code --Reflections on a European Copyright Codification --European Copyright Codification.