The WIPO Internet Treaties at 25
A Retrospective
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This Chapter describes the politics and process associated with the making of European Community’s Directive (EUCD, Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the Harm...
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Canada enacted the implementation legislation only in 2012, sixteen years after the Internet Treaties were negotiated and adopted. The Chapter details the distinctive features of Canadian political and copyrig...
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This Chapter describes how in late 1990s, a narrative centred around public domain began to be constructed as a response to the perceived ‘overreach’ of copyright laws and how public domain came to be “the cause ...
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This Chapter provides an overview of the main theme of the Book. Today’s digital technologies, business models for online transactions and most of the academic thinking about copyright and related rights are l...
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Even though India played a very active role in the WIPO Diplomatic Conference (1996), it transposed the Internet Treaties into its copyright law only in 2012 and acceded to the Internet Treaties only six years...
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This Chapter details one of the two novel ways of creating content made possible by the spread of World Wide Web 2.0 and other digital technologies, namely social production (also called distributed production...
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This Chapter begins with diverse views about who the ‘user’ in UGC is and what is the content covered by UGC. It goes on to describe the massive challenges UGC posed to copyright law and enforcement. It also d...
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This Chapter begins by describing how in the early 2000s WIPO’s copyright policy environment, like that in many countries, had changed very dramatically, and WIPO was figuratively transported on a Time Machine...
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By narrating how the Internet Treaties were negotiated and adopted, this Chapter provides a backdrop to the main theme of the Book. What was remarkable about the making of Internet Treaties is that they were n...
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This Chapter describes how Napster, a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) filesharing service, burst on the copyright scene within about two years of the adoption of the Internet Treaties, and knocked out much of the music cop...
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This Chapter narrates how the appearance of interactive Web 2.0 facilitated the emergence of new intermediaries such as Facebook and other social media and sharing platforms like YouTube which being content pr...
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This Chapter narrates the politics and process of enacting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which was exceptionally adversarial and acrimonious even by American standards. The making of DMCA is a t...