Concise European Copyright Law: Edition 2

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Thomas Dreier · P. Bernt Hugenholtz

2016年1月 · Kluwer Law International B.V.

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Concise European Copyright Law aims to offer the reader a rapid understanding of all the provisions of copyright law in force in Europe that have been enacted at the European and international levels. This volume takes the form of an article-by-article commentary on the relevant European directives and international treaties in the field of copyright and neighbouring rights. It is intended to provide the reader with a short and straightforward explanation of the principles of law to be drawn from each provision. Editors and authors are prominent specialists (academics and practitioners) in the field of international and European copyright law.

Concise European Copyright Law is part of 'Concise IP', a series of five volumes of commentary on European intellectual property legislation. The five volumes cover: Patents and related matters, Trademarks and designs, Copyrights and neighbouring rights, IT and a general volume including jurisdictional issues.

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Thomas DREIER studied law and art history at the Universities of Bonn, Geneva and Munich, and obtained his M.C.J.-degree from New York University School of Law. He is Professor of Law at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, where he is the Director of the Institute for Information and Economic Law, and Honorary Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Freiburg. His main focus is on copyright law and new technologies. Before joining the KIT, Prof. Dreier has been working at the Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich, Germany. He has been an advisor to both the European Commission and the Council of Europe on copyright matters. Professor Dreier has also taught intellectual property as visiting professor at the New York University, School of Law. Prof. Dreier is vice-president of the Association littéraire et artistique internationale (ALAI), chairman of the copyright expert committee of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR) and Senior Fellow of the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Law as Culture". He is the author of numerous publications in the field of copyright, amongst them Dreier/Schulze, Urheberrecht (Beck, 5th ed., 2015), and Kur/Dreier, European Intellectual Property Law (Elgar, 2013). Bernt HUGENHOLTZ studied law at the University of Groningen. He is Professor of Law at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law, and also teaches at the University of Bergen (Norway) and the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center in Munich. In 1989 he received his doctorate cum laude from the University of Amsterdam. He was a member of the Amsterdam Bar from 1990 to 1998, and is now an adjunct judge at the Court of Appeals in Arnhem. He has acted as an advisor to WIPO, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands. Professor Hugenholtz has published widely on a vast range of copyright-related issues. He is the co-author, with Professor Paul Goldstein (Stanford University), of International Copyright Law (Oxford University Press, 3rd ed., 2013). He is also the General Editor of the Information Law Series, published by Kluwer Law International. He is one of the founders of the Wittem Group that drafted the European Copyright Code, and co-founder and member of the European Copyright Society.