Silke von Lewinski – Författare

This book deals comprehensively with the major treaties and conventions covering the law of international copyright and neighbouring rights. It explains the complex legal, economic and political background to the treaties and their contents, and how they inter-relate. There is also practical commercial discussion of how copyright and neighbouring rights are treated in international trade measures such as GATT, WTO, NAFTA, and bilateral and unilateral treaties, with a section devoted to how unilateral trade measures are applied by the USA in particular. There is also some discussion of how international copyright law and neighbouring rights may develop in the future.The book is intended to be a definitive account of the law of international copyright and neighbouring rights, but it is also intended to be accessible to non-specialist practitioners. It is fully cross-referenced to a forthcoming companion volume, European Copyright Law and Policy (expected to publish in 2008), offering readers a comprehensive approach to the subject. The author has been consulted on copyright policy on numerous occasions by various governmental and non-governmental organisations within and outside the EC, and therefore is ideally placed to give an inside view on how policy is formed.

This work is the leading guide to the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT), the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT), and the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances and includes a chapter on the Marrakesh Treaty of 2013. More than ten years have passed since the entry into force of the WCT and the WPPT. This revised commentary on the treaties reflects on the impact of their implementation and illustrates how they have come to be applied in different ways in particular through national legislation. It gives a detailed analysis of the development and meaning of all articles of these treaties and integrates current debates on copyright and neighbouring rights protection in the digital age. Written by two leading experts in copyright law, both closely involved in the evolution of the treaties and their implementation into national and EU law, this work is the definitive guide to the recently adopted international copyright treaties.

Royalty payments are once again becoming a hot button issue for authors and artists, as well as other holders of copyright or related rights, because they fail to receive adequate compensation for the use of their work on the internet. This volume from the 2015 ALAI Congress contributes to the international discussion of this issue by examining the causes of the problem and possible solutions, including a set of business models to compensate for internet usage. The volume contains mainly English as well as French and Spanish contributions.

Das Phänomen der nutzergenerierten Inhalte, erlangt immer stärkere Bedeutung und stellt das Recht täglich vor neue Herausforderungen. Es umfasst nicht nur Blogs, Wikis und Videoportale wie YouTube und MyVideo, sondern auch soziale Netzwerke wie MySpace sowie andere Plattformen, in denen Nutzer interagieren und/oder kollektiv Inhalte schaffen und somit zunehmend die Rolle des passiven Rezipienten verlassen und zum Produzenten ihrer eigenen Beiträge werden. Der „Prosument“ hat also die Bühne betreten und er hat eine Menge juristischer Probleme und Fragen in seinem Gepäck, denn das veränderte Nutzerverhalten und die neuartigen Rahmenbedingungen bei der Produktion von Medieninhalten birgt nicht nur aus urheberrechtlicher sondern auch aus kollisionsrechtlicher und haftungsrechtlicher Sicht eine Vielzahl von Fragen, welchen die Autoren dieses Bandes nachgehen und welche sie zu lösen versuchen.