What if we could reimagine copyright?
by Rebecca Giblin, Kimberlee Weatherall
Publisher: ANU Press 2017
ISBN-13: 9781760460815
Number of pages: 344
Description:
What if we could start with a blank slate, and write ourselves a brand new copyright system? Taking this thought experiment as their starting point, the leading international thinkers represented in this collection reconsider copyright's fundamental questions: the subject matter that should be protected, the ideal scope and duration of those rights, and how it should be enforced.
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