Copyright: Political Driving Forces

Political Driving Forces

Description

Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted by governments to regulate the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. Different countries have different copyright laws. Most of the differences deal with whether the government's work is copyrighted, how much longer copyright lasts after the author dies, and what is fair use. A piece of work may be copyrighted in one country and public domain in another.

= Enablers

Regulatory system : government

International organization setting the rules for the global system and resolving disputes among contries :UN,WIPO, and WTO

Advocators of copyright

Inhibitors

Opponent of copyright (ex: socialist anarchist): they think that ideas and knowledge should not be owned or controlled

Paradigms

a) With a huge influx of participants, China's booming blogs are becoming a highly profitable way of online commerce, raising the issue of blog copyright.

b) The USA’ s dispute with China over its movie piracy and other copyright infringement may escalate into litigation.

Timing

Usually, the legal system don' change. But affected by the external force (such as social perspective or pressure from other countries), the government would do some modification.

Web Resources

http://www.bitlaw.com/

http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/~howard/Copyright/

http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/yjolt/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=37

http://www.iusmentis.com/