Out Today! Copyright In Addition To Costless Speech

's friends Uma Suthersanen and Jonathan Griffiths teamed upward a yoke of years agone to run a really enjoyable conference on the theme of Copyright too Free Speech, the number of which is a railroad train of papers that convey been edited into a jolly practiced read. This morn these papers convey been nigh handsomely published past times Oxford University Press nether the championship Copyright too Free Speech: Comparative too International Analyses.

The OUP blurb reads:

"Written past times a squad of leading scholars too practitioners inwards the fields of copyright too complimentary speech, this operate analyses the potential for interaction too conflict betwixt the 2 rights".

likes this, though modesty prevents him mentioning that co-author Jeremy is i of the contributors (if yous desire to know what his thoughts are on the human relationship of sui generis database correct to complimentary speech, yous tin commence reading backwards from the end, since his is the final chapter ...)

The contents are equally follows:

Lord Justice Jacob: Preface
1 Jonathan Griffiths too Uma Suthersanen: Introduction

Part A: Mapping the Conflict
2 Eric Barendt: Copyright too complimentary phonation communication theory
3 Fiona Macmillan: Commodification too cultural ownership
4 Wendy Gordon: Copyright norms too the occupation of soul censorship
5 Uma Suthersanen: Towards an international populace involvement rule? Human rights too international copyright law

Part B: National Perspectives
6 Neil Netanel: Copyright too the First Amendment
7 Gerald Dworkin: Copyright, the populace involvement too liberty of speech
8 Kevin Garnett QC: The affect of the Human Rights Act 1998 on Great Britain copyright law
9 Jonathan Griffiths: Not such a 'timid thing' - the UK's integrity correct too liberty of expression
10 Ysolde Gendreau: Canadian copyright police describe too its Charters
11 Robert Burrell too James Stellios: Copyright too liberty of political communication inwards Australia
12 Alain Strowel too François Tulken: Freedom of aspect too copyright nether the civil law
13 Mira Sundara Rajan: Copyright too complimentary phonation communication inwards transition: the Russian experience

Part C: The Digital World
14 Raymond T. Nimmer: First Amendment phonation communication too the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: a proper marriage
15 Thomas Dreier: Contracting out of copyright inwards the Information Society - the affect on liberty of expression
16 Jeremy Phillips: Databases, the Human Rights Act too European Union law

Weighing inwards at 480 pages (inclusive of those at the showtime alongside Roman numerals, which the IPKat unremarkably skips), this hardback costs £75.00. It's a venture too thoughtful European-originating perspective on a dependent plain in i lawsuit idea to move the sole save of States jurisprudence. Go out too purchase it.