Copyright law is commonly described as carrying out a balancing act between the interests of authors or owners and those of the public. While much academic work, both historical and contemporary, has been done on the authorship side of the equation, this book examines the notion of public interest,
Copyright & the Public Interest
- Year
- 2011
- Category
- Fiction
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