A Copyright Gambit On the Need for Exclusive Rights in Digitised Versions of Public Domain Textual Materials in Europe /

• Main Author: Mendis, Sunimal (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Munich Studies on Innovation and Competition, 11
• Subjects: Mass media.; Law.; Law-Europe.; IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property.; European Law.

European memory institutions are repositories of a wealth of rare documents that record public domain content. These documents are often stored in 'dark-archives' to which members of the public are granted limited access, resulting in the public domain content recorded therein being relega...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Objectives and methodology
• An overview of business models currently in use
• Is there a need to preserve exclusivitiy over digitised versions?
• A conceptual basis for justifying the grant of an exclusive right
• Adequacy and suitability of existing protection mechanisms
• Can a digitised version obtain copyright protection within the EU?
• Why are related rights the best mechanism?
• The proposed model
• Conclusion
• Annex
• Bibliography.