New directions in copyright law / edited by Fiona Macmillan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1, pt I. Theoretical framework of copyright law. Creative improper property : copyright and the non-Western world / Joost Smiers. The moral preference for DRM ordered markets in the digitally networked environment / John Cahir. Can we afford to think about copyright in a global marketplace? / Kathy Bowrey. Justifications for copyright : the evolution of le droit moral / Stina Teilmann
pt. II. Globalisation, convergence, and divergence. From pax Americana to lex Americana : American legal and cultural hegemony / Helle Porsdam
Convergence of intellectual property rights and the establishment of 'hybrid' protection under TRIPs / Guido Westkamp
The social and economic effects of copyright in the music industry : a contribution to the convergence versus divergence debate / Birgitte Andersen, Richard Kozul-Wright and Zeljka Kozul-Wright. Freelance authors for free : globalisation of publishing, convergence of copyright contracts and divergence of judicial reasoning / Giuseppina D'Agostino. The regulation of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks : legal convergence v. perception divergence / Katerina Sideri. v. 2., pt. I. Theoretical framework of copyright law. The productive potential of intellectual property rights: governance and value creation processes / Birgitte Andersen and Sue Konzelmann
pt. II. Globalisation, convergence and divergence. Globalisation, convergence and divergence in international copyright law: a question of expediency or of right? / F. Willem Grosheide ; Artists' earnings and copyright: a review of British and German music industry data in the context of digital technologies / Martin Kretschmer ; Globalisation, digitalisation and the changing role of copyright / Lee Davis
pt. III. Developments in rights neighbouring on copyright. The EU database directive: taking stock / Tanya Aplin ; The moral right of integrity: a freedom of expression / Leslie Kim Treigar-Bar-Am ; Television broadcast copyright: the Australian experience / Michael Handler
pt. IV. Protection of traditional knowledge and culture. The legal protection of traditional cultural expressions: is copyright the answer? / Daphne Zografos ; Freedoms and knowledge, access and silence: traditional knowledge and freedom of speech / Johanna Gibson ; Protecting channels of communication: some challenges from the Pacific / Marilyn Strathern
pt. V. Copyright and the new technologies. The plagiarism panic: digital policing in the new intellectual property regime / Lisa Maruca ; The new, the bad, the hot, the fad: popular music, technology and the culture of freedom / Kathy Bowrey ; Strategic behavior and sources of value: some implications of the intangibles paradigm / Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
pt. VI. Copyright, corporate power and human rights. Copyright, corporate power and human rights: reality and rhetoric / Charlotte Waelde ; Is it possible to balance creativity and commerce? / John Howkins ; Losing to Disney: the complex lesson of Eldred v Ashcroft and the corporate control of copyright / Paul J. Heald. v. 3, pt. I. Protection of traditional knowledge and culture. Protecting traditional cultural expressions: the international dimension / Michael Blakeney ; Community and the exhaustion of culture. Creative territories in traditional cultural expressions / Johanna Gibson ; Can geographical indications be a viable alternative for the protection of traditional cultural expressions? / Daphne Zografos ; Knowledge and power: law, politics and socio-cultural perspectives on the protection of traditional medical knowledge systems in Zimbabwe / Alex Tawanda Magaisa
pt. II. Developments in rights neighbouring on copyright. Australian television broadcasts as copyright property / David Brennan ; A right to my public: copyright, human right or privacy? / Johanna Gibson ; The garden of Australian dreams: the moral rights of landscape architects / Matthew Rimmer ; 'Pretend-y rights': on the insanely complicated new regime for performers' rights in Australia, and how Australian performers lost out / Kimberlee Weatherall ; The qualification of traditional cultural expressions in private international law: a preliminary appraisal / Guido Westkamp ; The resale royalty and indigenous art: an opportunity for the recognition of economic and cultural rights? / Robynne Quiggin

"As one of the most flexible of the intellectual property rights, copyright law is under constant pressure to adapt and expand in the face of new and sometimes unforeseen challenges and developments. This book is the first in an important new six volume series whose aim is to consider the purpose, role, function and future of the copyright system. The book, and indeed the series, comprises thoughtful, critical and often challenging contributions from an international, multidisciplinary network of scholars. It brings together perspectives on copyright from law, politics, economics, cultural studies and social theory in an effort to forge a truly coherent and meaningful agenda for the future of copyright."--BOOK JACKET