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Includes data from an empirical survey of digitization projects undertaken by fourteen memory institutions in five European Union jurisdictions
Provides a comprehensive legal analysis of the extent to which the digitized versions of rare documents qualify for copyright protection within the copyright law frameworks of the United Kingdom, Germany and France
Includes model provisions for the enactment of a European Union Regulation that would introduce a related right to the digitized versions of rare documents that record public domain textual content
Part of the book series: Munich Studies on Innovation and Competition (MSIC, volume 11)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book examines the topical issue of the need to preserve exclusivity over digitised versions of rare documents recording public domain content. Based on data gathered through an empirical survey of digitisation projects undertaken by fourteen memory institutions in five European Union Member States, it argues for the introduction of exclusive rights in digitised versions of rare documents recording public domain textual content as a means of incentivising private-sector investment in the digitisation process. It concludes by presenting a detailed proposal for a European Union Regulation that would grant memory institutions a limited-term related right in digitised versions of rare documents held in their collections subject to stringent exceptions and limitations that are designed to safeguard user interests.
Keywords
- Copyright
- Related rights
- Exclusivity
- Public domain
- Digitization
- Memory institutions
- Rare documents
- Copyfraud
- Cultural heritage
- Public sector information
- PSI
Authors and Affiliations
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Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany
Sunimal Mendis
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Copyright Gambit
Book Subtitle: On the Need for Exclusive Rights in Digitised Versions of Public Domain Textual Materials in Europe
Authors: Sunimal Mendis
Series Title: Munich Studies on Innovation and Competition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-59454-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-59453-7Published: 17 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-59456-8Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-59454-4Published: 05 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2199-7462
Series E-ISSN: 2199-7470
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 294
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, European Law