Collective Rights and Digital Content The Legal Framework for Competition, Transparency and Multi-territorial Licensing of the New European Directive on Collective Rights Management /

• Main Author: Lucena, Cláudio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Law,
• Subjects: Law.; Computers.; Law and legislation.; Mass media.; International law.; Intellectual property > Law and legislation.; European Law.; International IT and Media Law, Intellectual Property Law.; Legal Aspects of Computing.; Media Law.

This book starts with an exercise, proposing a theoretical reflection on the technological path that, over time, has transformed the ways we produce, consume and manage intellectual content subject to copyright protection. This lays the groundwork for a further analysis of the main legal aspects of...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Shift Happens
• 3. Why Does Law Even Care?
• 4. Collective Rights Management
• 5. Conclusion.