Copinger and Skone James on Copyright: [Vol.1]

The structure of this edition is built around four fundamental rights: copyright; moral rights; rights performance; and rights in design. It contains chapters on industry exploitation of rights, collecting societies and control of rights. In addition, treatment is given to the other complimentary rights which impinge on this field: the database right and its relation to compilation copyright; the publication right; the public lending right; rights of confidence as an added protection for unpublished works; goodwill; stopping the circumvention of copy protection devices in the digital age; fraudulent reception of transmissions in the context of the explosion of broadcasting services; and semiconductor topography right and how it relates to design right.