Copyright Law And the Information Society in Asia (Iic Studies)

✍ Scribed by Christopher Heath, Kung-Chung Liu

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 302
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume takes a look at the six most important current topics arising from copyright law in the information society, and for each topic provides an in-depth introduction that compares the approaches taken in Europe and the US. Each topic is introduced by an expert, and the issues are then analyzed in separate country reports representing nine Asian jurisdictions: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The topics examined are: the expansion of copyright law and its social justification; internet trade, digital works, and parallel imports; the collective exercise of copyrights; the law on anti-circumvention and digital rights management; copyright contracts, public policy, and antitrust; and contributory and vicarious liability for copyright infringement.

✦ Table of Contents

Half Title Page......Page 1
Half Title verso......Page 2
Title Page......Page 3
Title verso......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Detailed Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgement......Page 17
Introductory Preface......Page 19
About the Authors and Editors......Page 23
I. Where everything began. . .......Page 27
II. . . . and how it got out of hand......Page 32
III. Problems and Critiques......Page 36
IV. Example: The Negative Outgrowth for Research......Page 40
V. Thoughts on an Appropriate Copyright System......Page 50
VI. Conclusion......Page 56
II. Hong Kong......Page 57
III. Taiwan......Page 62
IV. Japan......Page 67
V. Korea......Page 73
VI. Singapore......Page 74
VII. Malaysia......Page 79
VIII. Thailand......Page 80
IX. The Philippines......Page 81
I. Starting Point......Page 87
III. Considerations of free commerce......Page 88
IV. Copyright Exhaustion in the Analogue Environment......Page 89
V. Exhaustion, Technology and Electronic Distribution......Page 95
II. Hong Kong......Page 98
III. Taiwan......Page 101
V. Korea......Page 111
VI. Singapore......Page 113
VII. Malaysia......Page 116
VIII. Thailand......Page 118
I. Modes of Exercising Copyright......Page 123
II. Functions of Collecting Societies......Page 125
III. Copyright Law and Collecting Societies......Page 126
IV. The Laws and Regulations governing Collecting Societies......Page 128
V. Challenges to Collecting Societies—Competition Between National Collecting Societies......Page 131
VII. Future Prospects for Collecting Societies......Page 132
II. Hong Kong......Page 133
III. Taiwan......Page 136
V. Korea......Page 146
VI. Singapore......Page 147
VII. Malaysia......Page 149
VIII. Thailand......Page 150
IX. The Philippines......Page 151
I. Introduction......Page 155
II The Legislative Structure......Page 157
III The Judicial Interpretations......Page 160
IV. Analysis and Comments......Page 165
I. Introduction......Page 167
II. The 1996 WIPO Treaties......Page 168
1. Anti-Circumvention Regulations in China......Page 173
1. General......Page 176
1. Introducing protection for electronic rights management information......Page 178
1. Introduction......Page 181
2. Protection against anti-circumvention devices......Page 182
3. Digital Rights Management Information......Page 184
V. Korea......Page 185
1. Anti-circumvention Measures......Page 186
VII. Malaysia......Page 189
IX. The Philippines......Page 191
I. Introduction......Page 193
II. Are Restrictive Copyright Contracts valid?......Page 195
II. Should Restrictive Copyright Contracts be valid? A tentative solution within copyright law itself......Page 212
I. China......Page 237
II. Hong Kong......Page 238
III. Taiwan......Page 240
IV. Japan......Page 242
V. Korea......Page 244
VI. Singapore......Page 246
VII. Malaysia......Page 247
VIII. Thailand......Page 248
IX. Philippines......Page 249
I. Introduction......Page 253
III. Statutory Enactment/Codification......Page 255
IV. The Sony Betamax Case......Page 256
V. The Napster Case—The First Peer-to-Peer Challenge......Page 257
VI. The Aimster Case—A twist but no cigar......Page 260
VII. MGM v. Grokster—Decentralised file-sharing and Inducement......Page 261
VIII. The Aftermath of Grokster—The “Induce Act” Now on Hold......Page 263
IX. The Challenge—BitTorrent and Others......Page 265
X. The International Developments......Page 266
XI. Conclusion......Page 272
I. China......Page 274
1. General......Page 275
2. Internet Service Providers......Page 276
3. Company Directors......Page 277
1. The Taiwanese Copyright Act and the File-sharing Cases......Page 278
2. Legal Analysis......Page 280
IV. Japan......Page 281
1. The Karaoke Cases......Page 282
2. The File Rogue Cases......Page 283
V. Korea......Page 284
VI. Singapore......Page 286
VII. Malaysia......Page 289
VIII. The Philippines......Page 290
II. Economic Rationales For and Against Copyright Law......Page 295
III. The Ignored Corner of Copyright Research: Is Piracy Always so Evil?......Page 297
IV. Legal Copyright Protection or Self-help Piracy Control?......Page 299
V. Indirect Revenue Appropriation......Page 301
VI. Concluding Remarks......Page 302