The uncertainty and confusion that generated the lack of a unified framework for the protection of copyright led 10 European States in 1886 to sign the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary ...

During the initial meetings of the Berne Convention, Germany was very vocal about the rights of users and even proposed a separate right to use copyrighted works for education and scientific purposes ...

The U.S. Copyright Office’s recently released study Copyright Protections for Press Publishers raises serious questions about the compatibility of ancillary ...

Since drafting its first domestic copyright law, it has taken China only a little over a decade to join the major international copyright conventions. This path is remarkably short for adopting ...

The countries of the Union, being equally animated by the desire to protect, in as effective and uniform a manner as possible, the rights of authors in their literary and artistic works, Recognizing ...

The convention is the most widely-recognised copyright convention and was originally ratified by the UK in 1886. Jersey is the first of the Channel Islands to sign up after updating its copyright laws ...

The recent lawsuit filed by academic publishers against Sci-Hub, a pirate database containing over 84 million academic articles, has provoked yet another debate over the role of copyright in the ...