Fitzgerald, Brian.
Copyright Law, Digital Content and the Internet in the Asia-Pacific. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (372 pages)
Intro -- COPYRIGHT LAW, DIGITAL CONTENT AND THE INTERNET IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- FOREWORD -- CONTRIBUTORS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- TABLE OF KEY CASES -- Australia -- Hong Kong -- People's Republic of China -- Singapore -- United States -- TABLE OF KEY LEGISLATION AND INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS -- Australia -- Hong Kong -- Indonesia -- International -- People's Republic of China -- Singapore -- United States -- PART 1 - THE NEW DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT -- FROM MOUSTACHES TO MY SPACES -- THE JUDICIAL PROTECTION OF COPYRIGHT ON THE INTERNET IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DIGITAL COPYRIGHT PROTECTION SYSTEM IN CHINESE COURTS -- The Increase of Cases Involving Internet Copyright Disputes since the Mid 1990s -- The Development and Establishment of Internet Copyright Theories has Laid the Foundation for Legislation and Judicial Practices -- The Release and Enforcement of the Judicial Interpretation Regarding Various Issues on the Application of Laws While Adjudicating Disputes Relating to Computer Networks -- THE AMENDMENT OF THE COPYRIGHT LAW AND THE NETWORKS COPYRIGHT INTERPRETATION -- THE 2ND AMENDMENT OF THE "NETWORKS COPYRIGHT INTERPRETATION" UPON THE RELEASE OF THE "COMMUNICATION RIGHT REGULATION" -- THE APPLICATION OF LAW INVOLVING NETWORK COPYRIGHT PROTECTION AFTER THE COMMUNICATION RIGHT REGULATION -- The Extensive Internet Torts and Application of Law -- Determination of Infringement and Relevant Factors -- SOME SPECIFIC ISSUES ON THE APPLICATION OF LAWS -- ISPs' Liability -- Liability of Internet Search Engine Providers -- Deep Link Issues -- Issues Regarding P2P -- Issues Regarding Website Name -- CONCLUSION -- PART 2 - DIGITAL CONTENT POLICY AND THE NETWORKED INFORMATION ECONOMY -- A LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONTENT INDUSTRY IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. INTRODUCTION -- CONCEPTS AND THE ROLE OF THE DIGITAL CONTENT INDUSTRY -- Digital Content Industry -- Digital Content Products -- Digital Content Industry as a part of a National Informationisation Strategy -- Digital content industry as a key strategy of a creative nation -- CHALLENGES OF LEGAL ORDER FOR THE DIGITAL CONTENT INDUSTRY -- Challenges of the Copyright Order -- Digitised works and digital works -- Network communication -- Network communication of digital works challenges the copyright law -- Challenges to the order of industry or media regulation -- Network medium -- Characteristic of network media -- Network challenges media regulations -- The Challenges of the convergence of networks to media regulation -- POLICIES AND LAWS FOR DEVELOPING THE DIGITAL CONTENT INDUSTRY -- Copyright law -- Regulations on digital content industry and market entrance -- Separated regulations on content and converged networks -- Regulations on the market subjects -- Implementation issues of regulations on network media -- Regulations on network content -- Regulations on network communication -- CONCLUSION -- INTERNET CONTENT POLICY AND REGULATION IN AUSTRALIA -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT -- WHAT TYPES OF CONTENT ARE REGULATED? -- IMPLEMENTING THE BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT -- CO-REGULATION AND THE INTERNET INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION CODES OF PRACTICE -- THE 2005 AMENDMENTS TO THE IIA CODES: ADDRESSING MOBILITY AND CONVERGERNCE -- RECENT CHANGES TO THE LAW -- NEW DEVELOPMENTS -- CONCLUSION -- REGULATION OF THE INTERACTIVE DIGITAL MEDIA INDUSTRY IN SINGAPORE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE OVERARCHING LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK - THE BROADCASTING ACT -- Application to the Internet -- Private Communications -- The Class Licence Regime -- The Operation of a Class Licence -- Obligations of a Class Licensee -- FILMS, PORNOGRAPHY AND CENSORSHIP -- VIDEO GAMES. ELECTIONS AND POLITICS -- RELIGIOUS ISSUES AND RACIAL SENTIMENTS -- COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT -- NON LEGAL MEANS OF REGULATION -- CONCLUSION -- WHY EMERGING BUSINESS MODELS AND NOT COPYRIGHT LAW ARE THE KEY TO MONETISING CONTENT ONLINE -- INTRODUCTION -- COPYRIGHT PROTECTION ON THE WEB -- EMERGING ALTERNATIVES -- The Retail Subscription Model -- The Ad-supported Model -- The Voluntary Blanket Licensing Model -- CONCLUSION -- INTERNET CONTENT PROVIDER LICENCES IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA'S INTERNET INDUSTRY: A PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE -- BACKGROUND -- ICP-RELATED LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE INTERNET INDUSTRY -- PRC's Legal Environment -- Specific Regulations on ICPs -- PRACTICAL CHALLENGES AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS -- Internet Information Services: ICP Licence or ICP Filing? -- Online Advertising -- E-commerce -- MII's New Policy on the Qualification of ICPs for Foreign Investors -- Regulation: Both Overlapping and Vacant -- CONCLUSION -- IMPROVING THE REGULATIVE ENVIRONMENT TO FACILITATE THE EXPLOITATION OF INFORMATION RESOURCES IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA -- INTRODUCTION -- INFORMATION EXPLOITATION -- Inclusiveness of information resources -- Status quo of information exploitation in China -- Information resources on the Internet -- National fundamental databases -- Information service for public welfare -- POLICY OUTLINES TO STRENGTHEN EXPLOITATION OF INFORMATION RESOURCES -- Demand oriented, application based development mechanism -- Enhancing information infrastructure -- Building fundamental databases and fortifying reserve of information -- Exploitation of information resources for the public interests -- Financing and taxation system to boost information resources industry -- LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR INFORMATION EXPLOITATION -- Legislative principles -- Basic framework -- FIVE LEVELS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION -- Judicial litigation. Administrative execution -- Technological measures -- Collective management and industry self-discipline -- Private control on IP with information contracts -- The legal validity of new styles of information contracts -- Technological particulars of a contractual right -- Contracts for information free share -- CONCLUSION -- PART 3 - COPYRIGHT LAW, NEW MEDIA AND THE FUTURE -- COPYRIGHT 2010: THE FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW -- THE NEW LANDSCAPE -- THE SOCIAL NETWORK -- ELEVEN POINTS FOR 2010 -- The Law -- The Context -- CONCLUSION -- THE NEW RIGHT OF COMMUNICATION THROUGH THE INFORMATION NETWORK IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BACKGROUND TO THE NETWORK COMMUNICATION RIGHT IN CHINA -- THE NATURE OF THE RIGHT OF NETWORK COMMUNICATION IN CHINA -- The right of network communication is a primary exclusive right in China -- The right of network communication is a new exclusive right in China -- The application of the right of network communication in China -- THE NEW PROBLEMS WITH THE RIGHT OF NETWORK COMMUNICATION IN CHINA: WHEN DOES AN ISP INFRINGE THE RIGHT? -- Background -- ISP's liability of joint tortfeasor in China -- Conflicting views amongst Chinese courts -- Universal Music Group v chinamp3.com -- Universal Music Group v Jining's Window Information Ltd -- The implication of the new question on linking service and P2P service -- Push Sound Co v Baidu -- Push Sound Co v Fashionow 3838 See Beijing No. 2 Intermediary People's Court, Civil Judgement (2005) Er Zhong Min Chu Zi No. 13739. -- SUGGESTION ON APPROPRIATELY IMPLEMENTING THE WCT ARTICLE 8 IN CHINA -- Only the uploader communicates works to the public through the network -- CONCLUSION -- COPYRIGHT CHALLENGES FOR USER GENERATED INTERMEDIARIES: VIACOM V YOUTUBE AND GOOGLE -- INTRODUCTION -- VIACOM v YOUTUBE -- Viacom's complaint -- The key issues likely to decide the case. A 'volitional act' -- The Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- The 'red flag' provision -- The 'financial benefit' provision -- COPYRIGHT ISSUES FOR OTHER USER GENERATED INTERMEDIARIES -- USER GENERATED INTERMEDIARIES UNDER AUSTRALIAN COPYRIGHT LAW -- Authorisation of copyright infringement -- Safe harbour provisions -- CONCLUSION -- COPYRIGHT LAW REFORM AND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY IN INDONESIA -- HISTORY OF COPYRIGHT LAW AND ITS EXPANSION IN INDONESIA AFTER INDEPENDENCE -- INTERNET TRADE, DIGITAL WORKS AND PARALLEL IMPORTS -- COLLECTIVE EXERCISE OF COPYRIGHT -- THE LAW ON ANTI-CIRCUMVENTION AND DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT -- COPYRIGHT CONTRACTS AND PUBLIC POLICY -- CONTRIBUTORY AND VICARIOUS LIABILITY FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT -- COPYRIGHT LAW IN THE INDONESIAN COURTS -- CONCLUSION -- CHINESE COPYRIGHT LAW, PEER PRODUCTION AND THE PARTICIPATORY MEDIA AGE: AN OLD REGIME IN A NEW WORLD -- I DON'T WANT TO SAY I'M A CHICKEN -- COPYRIGHT LAW IN A NETWORKED INFORMATION SOCIETY -- When the World was Being Digital -- Now, the Networked World is Being Human -- FUNDAMENTALS OF PARTICIPATORY MEDIA -- From Creative Expression to Communication -- Peer Production, Non-market Based Innovation and the New Creativity Model -- Sharing Culture and Non-Commercial Culture -- From Consumers to Users: Situated Users and How Information is Being Used -- Non-commercial v Commercial: Rivals? -- Non-commercial sector competes against commercial domain -- Non-commercial sector supplements and supports commercial sector -- COPYRIGHT DILEMMA (1): WHAT ARE WE STICKING WITH? -- Moral Concerns and Notions on Copyright in China, and the Participatory Creativity -- Economic Rights and Participatory Creativity -- Copyright Limitations, Users' Rights and Participatory Creativity -- COPYRIGHT DILEMMA (2): THE WAY FORWARD? -- User Sharing Permission -- Sharing under Current Copyright Law. Toward a Sharing-friendly Copyright Regime.
Copyright law, digital content and the Internet in the Asia-Pacific provides a unique insight into the key issues facing copyright law and digital content policy in a networked information world.
9781743322444
Electronic books.
Copyright Law, Digital Content and the Internet in the Asia-Pacific. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (372 pages)
Intro -- COPYRIGHT LAW, DIGITAL CONTENT AND THE INTERNET IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- FOREWORD -- CONTRIBUTORS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- TABLE OF KEY CASES -- Australia -- Hong Kong -- People's Republic of China -- Singapore -- United States -- TABLE OF KEY LEGISLATION AND INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS -- Australia -- Hong Kong -- Indonesia -- International -- People's Republic of China -- Singapore -- United States -- PART 1 - THE NEW DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT -- FROM MOUSTACHES TO MY SPACES -- THE JUDICIAL PROTECTION OF COPYRIGHT ON THE INTERNET IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DIGITAL COPYRIGHT PROTECTION SYSTEM IN CHINESE COURTS -- The Increase of Cases Involving Internet Copyright Disputes since the Mid 1990s -- The Development and Establishment of Internet Copyright Theories has Laid the Foundation for Legislation and Judicial Practices -- The Release and Enforcement of the Judicial Interpretation Regarding Various Issues on the Application of Laws While Adjudicating Disputes Relating to Computer Networks -- THE AMENDMENT OF THE COPYRIGHT LAW AND THE NETWORKS COPYRIGHT INTERPRETATION -- THE 2ND AMENDMENT OF THE "NETWORKS COPYRIGHT INTERPRETATION" UPON THE RELEASE OF THE "COMMUNICATION RIGHT REGULATION" -- THE APPLICATION OF LAW INVOLVING NETWORK COPYRIGHT PROTECTION AFTER THE COMMUNICATION RIGHT REGULATION -- The Extensive Internet Torts and Application of Law -- Determination of Infringement and Relevant Factors -- SOME SPECIFIC ISSUES ON THE APPLICATION OF LAWS -- ISPs' Liability -- Liability of Internet Search Engine Providers -- Deep Link Issues -- Issues Regarding P2P -- Issues Regarding Website Name -- CONCLUSION -- PART 2 - DIGITAL CONTENT POLICY AND THE NETWORKED INFORMATION ECONOMY -- A LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONTENT INDUSTRY IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. INTRODUCTION -- CONCEPTS AND THE ROLE OF THE DIGITAL CONTENT INDUSTRY -- Digital Content Industry -- Digital Content Products -- Digital Content Industry as a part of a National Informationisation Strategy -- Digital content industry as a key strategy of a creative nation -- CHALLENGES OF LEGAL ORDER FOR THE DIGITAL CONTENT INDUSTRY -- Challenges of the Copyright Order -- Digitised works and digital works -- Network communication -- Network communication of digital works challenges the copyright law -- Challenges to the order of industry or media regulation -- Network medium -- Characteristic of network media -- Network challenges media regulations -- The Challenges of the convergence of networks to media regulation -- POLICIES AND LAWS FOR DEVELOPING THE DIGITAL CONTENT INDUSTRY -- Copyright law -- Regulations on digital content industry and market entrance -- Separated regulations on content and converged networks -- Regulations on the market subjects -- Implementation issues of regulations on network media -- Regulations on network content -- Regulations on network communication -- CONCLUSION -- INTERNET CONTENT POLICY AND REGULATION IN AUSTRALIA -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT -- WHAT TYPES OF CONTENT ARE REGULATED? -- IMPLEMENTING THE BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT -- CO-REGULATION AND THE INTERNET INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION CODES OF PRACTICE -- THE 2005 AMENDMENTS TO THE IIA CODES: ADDRESSING MOBILITY AND CONVERGERNCE -- RECENT CHANGES TO THE LAW -- NEW DEVELOPMENTS -- CONCLUSION -- REGULATION OF THE INTERACTIVE DIGITAL MEDIA INDUSTRY IN SINGAPORE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE OVERARCHING LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK - THE BROADCASTING ACT -- Application to the Internet -- Private Communications -- The Class Licence Regime -- The Operation of a Class Licence -- Obligations of a Class Licensee -- FILMS, PORNOGRAPHY AND CENSORSHIP -- VIDEO GAMES. ELECTIONS AND POLITICS -- RELIGIOUS ISSUES AND RACIAL SENTIMENTS -- COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT -- NON LEGAL MEANS OF REGULATION -- CONCLUSION -- WHY EMERGING BUSINESS MODELS AND NOT COPYRIGHT LAW ARE THE KEY TO MONETISING CONTENT ONLINE -- INTRODUCTION -- COPYRIGHT PROTECTION ON THE WEB -- EMERGING ALTERNATIVES -- The Retail Subscription Model -- The Ad-supported Model -- The Voluntary Blanket Licensing Model -- CONCLUSION -- INTERNET CONTENT PROVIDER LICENCES IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA'S INTERNET INDUSTRY: A PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE -- BACKGROUND -- ICP-RELATED LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE INTERNET INDUSTRY -- PRC's Legal Environment -- Specific Regulations on ICPs -- PRACTICAL CHALLENGES AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS -- Internet Information Services: ICP Licence or ICP Filing? -- Online Advertising -- E-commerce -- MII's New Policy on the Qualification of ICPs for Foreign Investors -- Regulation: Both Overlapping and Vacant -- CONCLUSION -- IMPROVING THE REGULATIVE ENVIRONMENT TO FACILITATE THE EXPLOITATION OF INFORMATION RESOURCES IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA -- INTRODUCTION -- INFORMATION EXPLOITATION -- Inclusiveness of information resources -- Status quo of information exploitation in China -- Information resources on the Internet -- National fundamental databases -- Information service for public welfare -- POLICY OUTLINES TO STRENGTHEN EXPLOITATION OF INFORMATION RESOURCES -- Demand oriented, application based development mechanism -- Enhancing information infrastructure -- Building fundamental databases and fortifying reserve of information -- Exploitation of information resources for the public interests -- Financing and taxation system to boost information resources industry -- LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR INFORMATION EXPLOITATION -- Legislative principles -- Basic framework -- FIVE LEVELS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION -- Judicial litigation. Administrative execution -- Technological measures -- Collective management and industry self-discipline -- Private control on IP with information contracts -- The legal validity of new styles of information contracts -- Technological particulars of a contractual right -- Contracts for information free share -- CONCLUSION -- PART 3 - COPYRIGHT LAW, NEW MEDIA AND THE FUTURE -- COPYRIGHT 2010: THE FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW -- THE NEW LANDSCAPE -- THE SOCIAL NETWORK -- ELEVEN POINTS FOR 2010 -- The Law -- The Context -- CONCLUSION -- THE NEW RIGHT OF COMMUNICATION THROUGH THE INFORMATION NETWORK IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BACKGROUND TO THE NETWORK COMMUNICATION RIGHT IN CHINA -- THE NATURE OF THE RIGHT OF NETWORK COMMUNICATION IN CHINA -- The right of network communication is a primary exclusive right in China -- The right of network communication is a new exclusive right in China -- The application of the right of network communication in China -- THE NEW PROBLEMS WITH THE RIGHT OF NETWORK COMMUNICATION IN CHINA: WHEN DOES AN ISP INFRINGE THE RIGHT? -- Background -- ISP's liability of joint tortfeasor in China -- Conflicting views amongst Chinese courts -- Universal Music Group v chinamp3.com -- Universal Music Group v Jining's Window Information Ltd -- The implication of the new question on linking service and P2P service -- Push Sound Co v Baidu -- Push Sound Co v Fashionow 3838 See Beijing No. 2 Intermediary People's Court, Civil Judgement (2005) Er Zhong Min Chu Zi No. 13739. -- SUGGESTION ON APPROPRIATELY IMPLEMENTING THE WCT ARTICLE 8 IN CHINA -- Only the uploader communicates works to the public through the network -- CONCLUSION -- COPYRIGHT CHALLENGES FOR USER GENERATED INTERMEDIARIES: VIACOM V YOUTUBE AND GOOGLE -- INTRODUCTION -- VIACOM v YOUTUBE -- Viacom's complaint -- The key issues likely to decide the case. A 'volitional act' -- The Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- The 'red flag' provision -- The 'financial benefit' provision -- COPYRIGHT ISSUES FOR OTHER USER GENERATED INTERMEDIARIES -- USER GENERATED INTERMEDIARIES UNDER AUSTRALIAN COPYRIGHT LAW -- Authorisation of copyright infringement -- Safe harbour provisions -- CONCLUSION -- COPYRIGHT LAW REFORM AND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY IN INDONESIA -- HISTORY OF COPYRIGHT LAW AND ITS EXPANSION IN INDONESIA AFTER INDEPENDENCE -- INTERNET TRADE, DIGITAL WORKS AND PARALLEL IMPORTS -- COLLECTIVE EXERCISE OF COPYRIGHT -- THE LAW ON ANTI-CIRCUMVENTION AND DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT -- COPYRIGHT CONTRACTS AND PUBLIC POLICY -- CONTRIBUTORY AND VICARIOUS LIABILITY FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT -- COPYRIGHT LAW IN THE INDONESIAN COURTS -- CONCLUSION -- CHINESE COPYRIGHT LAW, PEER PRODUCTION AND THE PARTICIPATORY MEDIA AGE: AN OLD REGIME IN A NEW WORLD -- I DON'T WANT TO SAY I'M A CHICKEN -- COPYRIGHT LAW IN A NETWORKED INFORMATION SOCIETY -- When the World was Being Digital -- Now, the Networked World is Being Human -- FUNDAMENTALS OF PARTICIPATORY MEDIA -- From Creative Expression to Communication -- Peer Production, Non-market Based Innovation and the New Creativity Model -- Sharing Culture and Non-Commercial Culture -- From Consumers to Users: Situated Users and How Information is Being Used -- Non-commercial v Commercial: Rivals? -- Non-commercial sector competes against commercial domain -- Non-commercial sector supplements and supports commercial sector -- COPYRIGHT DILEMMA (1): WHAT ARE WE STICKING WITH? -- Moral Concerns and Notions on Copyright in China, and the Participatory Creativity -- Economic Rights and Participatory Creativity -- Copyright Limitations, Users' Rights and Participatory Creativity -- COPYRIGHT DILEMMA (2): THE WAY FORWARD? -- User Sharing Permission -- Sharing under Current Copyright Law. Toward a Sharing-friendly Copyright Regime.
Copyright law, digital content and the Internet in the Asia-Pacific provides a unique insight into the key issues facing copyright law and digital content policy in a networked information world.
9781743322444
Electronic books.