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Title

The copyright enforcement enigma : internet politics and the "Telecoms Package" / Monica Horten.

Author

Horten, Monica, 1960-

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2012.

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Details

Description

x, 275 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Can broadband providers be asked to enforce copyright? The issue of copyright enforcement on the Internet - peer-to-peer downloading and so-called 'piracy' - is a political hot potato. In 2007-2009 it sparked a highly polarised policy battle in the EU and France over the 'three-strikes' (graduated response) measures which would make broadband providers cut alleged infringers off the Internet. This is the enigmatic case of the EU Telecoms Package. It was an attempt to enable copyright enforcement by amending telecoms law, but the crux of the political debate concerned the right to a fair trial. How should we understand the connection between copyright, telecoms and judicial process? The Copyright Enforcement Enigma sets the problem into a historic context of copyright enforcement, technology and liability, and exposes why the Telecoms Package was the policy vehicle chosen"--P. [4] of cover.

Subject

• European Parliament
• Copyright > European Union countries
• Internet > Law and legislation > European Union countries
• Telecommunication > Law and legislation > European Union countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-271) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : establishing links between copyright and telecoms policies -- Pt. I. Historical context : copyright enforcement from Henry VIII to the internet -- A short history of copyright enforcement -- Copyright enforcement and the Internet -- Policy perspectives for online copyright enforcement -- Pt. II. political context : the law, the lobbyists and new enforcement proposals for Europe -- EU copyright and telecoms policies : an inherent conflict -- Right-holder & telecoms lobbying : disproportionate influences -- Graduated response : shifting liability for enforcement -- Pt. III. The telecoms package : the attempt to commandeer telecoms law for copyright -- Why the Telecoms Package became the policy instrument -- The attempt to put copyright in the Telecoms Package -- How Internet users' rights challenged copyright -- How copyright set the Parliament against the member states -- Conciliation and the right to a fair trial -- Copyright and telecoms : the enigma unpacked.

ISBN

9780230321717 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011029574

OCLC

729342604

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library