Berne Blockbuster

Berne, Baby, Berne! It's the novel OUP blockbuster

International Copyright as well as Neighbouring Rights: the Berne Convention as well as Beyond is the second edition of Sam Ricketson's scholarly live on the world's premier copyright treaty, which coincided amongst the Convention's centenary celebrations inwards 1986. Published yesteryear Oxford University Press, this live has grown inwards depth every bit good every bit length, having expanded to over 1,600 pages spanning 2 handsome volumes (right). Responsibility for the erudition has right away been shared amongst internationally renowned the States legal scholar Jane Ginsburg.

For the record, Sam Ricketson is Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne. Jane is the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary as well as Artistic Property Law, Columbia University School of Law, was Visiting Goodhart Professor of Law, Cambridge University Faculty of Law (2004-05). IPKat co-blogmeister Jeremy, who has pleasurable memories of Sam, as well as so a great immature Herchel Smith Research Fellow at Queen Mary, burrowing into the recondite byways of Berne lore when working on the showtime edition, wishes the minute edition well.

As the OUP website states:

"This magisterial commentary deals both amongst the history as well as amongst the modern application of the major international agreements affecting copyright as well as related rights. In particular, it analyses the interpretation as well as application of the next conventions: the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary as well as Artistic Works 1886-1970, the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Phonogram Producers as well as Broadcasting Organisations 1961, the WIPO Copyright as well as Performances as well as Phonograms Treaties 1996 as well as the TRIPS Agreement (so far every bit it affects copyright as well as related rights).

The scheme of the text separates historical review from doctrinal analysis of the electrical flow application of the Berne Convention's provisions. The latter exposes gaps as well as ambiguities inwards the electrical flow text and, inwards a 3rd department to each of the fundamental chapters, considers the extent to which subsequent international instruments convey resolved those questions. Issues concerning novel technologies as well as digital networks hence have in-depth treatment. The authors analyse questions of plain of written report affair coverage, copyright ownership, duration, nature as well as range of rights, as well as exceptions as well as limitations to copyrights protection.

Extensive analysis of someone international police pull matters too figures prominently inwards this edition, amongst 2 chapters devoted to problems of international jurisdiction as well as selection of law".

Details: Price £225; current ISBN (ISBN-10) - 0-19-825946-8; future ISBN (ISBN-13) 978-0-19-825946-6. Rupture risk - almost inevitable if yous movement to elevator both volumes simultaneously.