Artur-Axel Wandtke (ed.): Medienrecht: Praxishandbuch (2008) [German]
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Dem “Medienrecht” als Gestaltungsmittel in den Informations- und Kommunikationsprozessen kommt in der praktischen Unternehmenskultur und in der Rechtsdurchsetzung eine immer größer werdende Bedeutung zu. Wirtschaftlich gewinnen die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen der Informations- und Kommunikationsprozesse in der geistigen Produktion und deren Verwertungsbedingungen immer mehr an Gewicht. Werbemaßnahmen, Merchandising, Public Relations, kommerzialisierte Persönlichkeitsrechte, Telemedien, Online-Nutzung, Presseprodukte, Film- und Fernsehwerke und andere Erscheinungsformen stehen stellvertretend für eine Individual- und Massenkommunikation, die im herkömmlichen und virtuellen Markt eine entscheidende Rolle spielen.
Mit diesem Handbuch wird auf wissenschaftlicher Grundlage eine Gesamtdarstellung vor allem der privatrechtlichen Medienprozesse vorgelegt, die im Zusammenhang mit der Produktion und Vermarktung bzw. Nutzung von Zeichen, Bildern, Tönen und anderen Informationen (Medienprodukten) entstehen. Dabei werden auch die europarechtlichen Aspekte der Entwicklung des Medienrechts dargestellt.
Publisher Walter de Gruyter, 2008
ISBN 3899494229, 9783899494228
Length 1932 pages
Marjorie Heins, Tricia Beckles: Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control (2005)
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Are increasingly heavy assertions of control by copyright and trademark owners smothering fair use and free expression? The product of more than a year of research, Will Fair Use Survive? paints a striking picture of an intellectual property system that is out of balance. The report includes six recommendations for policy change.
This report is covered by a Creative Commons “Attribution – No Derivs – NonCommercial” License. You may copy it in its entirety as long as you credit the Brennan Center for Justice, Free Expression Policy Project. You may not edit or revise it, or copy portions, without permission (except, of course,
for fair use).
A Public Policy Report
Publisher: Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law
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Joseph William Singer: Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property (2000)
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In this important work of legal, political, and moral theory, Joseph William Singer offers a controversial new view of property and the entitlements and obligations of its owners. Singer argues against the conventional understanding that owners have the right to control their property as they see fit, with few limitations by government. Instead, property should be understood as a mode of organizing social relations, he says, and he explains the potent consequences of this idea.
Singer focuses on the ways in which property law reflects and shapes social relationships. He contends that property is a matter not of right but of entitlement—and entitlement, in Singer’s work, is a complex accommodation of mutual claims. Property requires regulation—property is a system and not just an individual entitlement, and the system must support a form of social life that spreads wealth, promotes liberty, avoids undue concentration of power, and furthers justice. The author argues that owners have not only rights but obligations as well—to other owners, to nonowners, and to the community as a whole. Those obligations ensure that property rights function to shape social relationships in ways that are both just and defensible.
Publisher Yale University Press, 2000
ISBN 0300080190, 9780300080193
Length 241 pages
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