Digital Rights Management - The End of Collecting Societies?
Christoph Beat Graber, Carlo Govoni, Michael Girsberger, Mira Nenova, Editors
Price: $70.00 255 pages. 1 Softcover Volume. Published December 2005.
ISBN-13: 978-1-57823-201-7 / ISBN-10: 1-57823-201-5
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The ubiquitous digitisation and the advent of Digital Rights Management Systems have created novel environments for content distribution and rights administration. The legal frameworks will indubitably have to evolve to match these new realities. The question whether the new technological infrastructures would render collective societies obsolete is part of this regulatory puzzle and needs to be adequately addressed in view of the balanced development of the Information Society. The present publication seeks to explore the different dimensions of collective rights management and to reassess the role of collecting societies in the digital era. The contributions of internationally renowned experts in the field of copyright and new technologies provide invaluable analyses from social and cultural policy, human rights and competition law aspects of the relationship "DRMs vs. Collective Societies" and elaborate on its future implications.
About the Editors:
Christoph Beat Graber is head of the research centre i-call (International Communications and Art Law Lucerne) of the Law Faculty of the University of Lucerne. He teaches in the fields of international trade law, communications and art law, European and global media law and sociology of law at the University of Lucerne and lectures on audiovisual services in the MILE programme of the World Trade Institute. He was formerly Managing Director of the Swiss Independent Complaints Authority for Radio and Television. He is currently the co-editor of the Swiss journal of communications law medialex, as well as a member of the Committee on Cultural Diversity of the International Conference of French Speaking Law Faculties (CIFDUF). Christoph Beat Graber is also a member of the Swiss Federal Arbitration Commission for the Exploitation of Author's Rights and Neighbouring Rights.
Carlo Govoni is head of the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property and was head of the Swiss delegation in the WIPO Diplomatic Conferences in 1996 and in 2000. He is a memeber, and from 1997 to 2000, vice-president of the Federal Arbitration Commission for the Exploitation of Author's Rights and Neighboruring Rights. During 1999-2000 Carlo Govoni charied the MM-S-PR, an expert group for Copyright and Neighbouring Rights of the coucil of Europe.
Michael Girsberger works as a research fellow at the University of Lucerne and is a member of the i-call (International Communications and art Law Lucerne) Research Center. Mr. Girsberger's research focuses on copyright and competition law issues of the digital networked environment and especially on issues concerning digital rights management.
Mira Nenova is a research fellow at the University of Lucerne and member of the i-call (International Communications and Art Law Lucerne) Centre. Ms. Nenova's research focuses on competition law issues in the electronic communications sector and on some governance implications of the convergence phenomenon and rapid technological developments.
About the Contributors:
Jacques de Werra presently practices law in Geneva in the fields of intellectual property and corporate law. He is the co-director of the Geneva Art-Law Center and a member of the Board of the Swiss Forum for Communication Law.
Adolf Dietz is a renowned specialist of German, European and international copyright law as well as of intellectual property law of the countries in Central and Eastern Europe and of China.
Mihály Ficsor is President of the Hungarian Copyright Experts Council, Chairman of the Hungarian Copyright Forum, Director of the Center for Information Technology and Intellectual Property, and Chairman of the Central and Eastern European Copyright Alliance.
Urs Gasser is a research and teaching fellow at the Berkman Cetner for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, and the executive director of the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen.
Daniel Gervais is the Oslers Professor of Technology Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa. Prior to his teaching career, Daniel Gervais was successively Head of Section at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
Brigitte Linder is a member of the Bar of Berlin/Germany and practises as Registered European Lawyer at Serle Court in London.
Catherine Mettraux Kauthen is currently a legal officer in the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Division of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI).
Alfred Meyer is a member of the Zurich bar and was previously appointed chief executive of the Swiss society for the rights of authors of musical works.
Hélène de Montluc is the Head of the Bureau de la propriété intellectuelle in Paris since 1987.
Peter Mosimann is currently the President of the Swiss Association of Copyright and Neighboring Rights users (DUN).
John Palfrey is Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
Vittorio Ragonesi is presently a Judge of the Italian Supreme Court (Corte Suprema di Cassazione).
Yolanda Schweri practices at the law firm Brem & Borer in Zurch and is the General Secretary of Suisseculture, the umbrella organisation of Swiss author's and performing artist's associations.
Dorothea Senn is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Economic Law at the University of Bern.
Adriano Viganò is mainly engaged in consulting and litigating for clients in the entertainment, arts and media industry. He is the personal advisor to the Swiss Film Association.