Examples & Explanations for Copyright, 4th Edition

Using proven Examples & Explanations pedagogy, this comprehensive study guide provides students with a short account of the law, followed by a variety of concrete examples and explanations that reinforce and give substance to key rules and concepts in copyright law.

Key New Features

• Substantial updates include new case law, explanations and examples—covering wide variety of copyright issues
• New cases covered include Golan: constitutionality of restoring copyright in foreign works that had been in the public domain due to failure to meet with formalities of U.S. copyright law; Aereo: scope of public performance right in retransmissions;  and Kirtsaeng: Whether first sale applies to gray market imports.
• Discussions of issues including whether artists have copyright in their performances, first sale of digital works, copying of information from famous news photographs, copyright of works in virtual worlds, fair use of appropriation art, news clippings services, Google Books, course pack, secondary liability of BitTorrent and YouTube, and reasonable royalty damages.