240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers an original analysis of private copying and determines its actual scope as an area of end-user freedom. The basis of this examination is Article 5(2)(b) of the Copyright Directive. Despite the fact that copying for private and non-commercial use is permitted by virtue of this article and the national laws that implemented it, there is no mandate that this privilege should not be... Read more

1. Legal Nature and Rationale  2. The Permitted Activities  3. Defining 'Private'  4. Defining 'Non-Commercial'  5.Fitting private copying into the three-step test  6. Levies on Private Copying  7. Technological Restrictions on Private Copying  8. Contractual Constraints on Private Copying  9. Conclusion

Biography

Stavroula Karapapa (LLB, LLM, PhD) is lecturer in intellectual property law at Brunel University and practicing Barrister at the Athens Bar, specialising in Intellectual Property and Internet law. Her chief research interests focus on the intersection of law and technology.

"Dr Karapapa’s Private Copying is a timely publication which emerged from the author’s PhD thesis. [...] the book provides a thoughtful and engaging analysis of the various issues surrounding this copyright exception or limitation."  - Eleonora Rosati for European Intellectual Property Review

Private Copying, with its original, purely European approach, constitutes a valuable contribution to a pan-European discussion on the topic of private copying for various reasons. First, it is a rich source of references to national regulations and case law. Moreover, one of the main advantages of this book is that it offers a thorough academic analysis of the topic in a concise and easy-to-read fashion. In addition, the presentation of the topic remains attached to real-life problems related to private copying, as shown in the use of several telling examples throughout the book. - Theodoros Chiou for Intellectual Property and Competition Law (2013) 44:744–746