threat of monopolies or regional oligopolies for the management of online music rights.
Legal underpinnings covered in the course of the analysis include the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaties, the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Napster case, the Santiago Agreement, relevant EU Papers and the 2014 Copyright Directive, and work done by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Part I presents a number of horizontal issues that affect collective management in almost every country. Part II is divided on a geographical basis, focusing on systems representative of the principal models applied in various countries and regions. Each country specific or region-specific chapter provides a historical overview and a presentation of existing CMOs and their activities, gives financial information where available, describes how CMOs are supervised or controlled by legislation, and offers thoughts about the challenges facing CMOs in the country or region concerned. Many of these national and regional commentaries are the only such information sources available in English.
Whatever the future of copyright holds, it is clear that users will continue to want access and the ability to reuse material lawfully, and authors and other rights holders will want to ensure that they can put some reasonable limits on those uses, including an ability to monetize commercially relevant uses. CMOs are sure to be critical intermediaries in this process. The second edition of this importantresource, with its key insights into the changing nature of collective management, will be of immeasurable value to all concerned with shaping policy towards collective management or working with the ever more complex legal issues arising in digital age copyright matters.
CHAPTER 1 Collective Management of Copyright: Theory and Practice in the Digital Age Daniel Gervais.
CHAPTER 2 Collective Rights Management from the Viewpoint of International Treaties, with Special Attention to the EU ‘Acquis’ Mihály Ficsor.
CHAPTER 3 Collective Management of Copyrights and Human Rights: An Uneasy Alliance Revisited Laurence R. Helfer.
CHAPTER 4 Collective Management in Central and Eastern Europe Mihály Ficsor & Mitko Chatalbashev.
CHAPTER 5 Collective Management in the European Union Lucie Guibault & Stef van Gompel.
CHAPTER 6 Collective Management of Copyright in France Sylvie Nérisson .
CHAPTER 7 Collective Rights Management in Germany Jörg Reinbothe.
CHAPTER 8 Collective Management in the Nordic Countries Tarja Koskinen-Olsson & Vigdís Sigurdardóttir.
CHAPTER 9 Collective Management in Canada Mario Bouchard.
CHAPTER 10 Collective Management of Copyright in Latin America Karina Correa Pereira.
CHAPTER 11 Copyright Collectives and Collecting Societies: The United States Experience Glynn Lunney.
CHAPTER 12 Collective Management in Africa J. Joel Baloyi & Tana Pistorius .
CHAPTER 13 Collective Management in China Fuxiao Jiang & Daniel Gervais .
CHAPTER 14 Collective Management of Copyright and Neighbouring Rights in Japan Koji Okumura.
CHAPTER 15 Collective Management and the Copyright Tribunals of New Zealand and Australia Susy Frankel.