Copyright (University Casebook Series)

With stimulating questions and discussion problems, comprehensive notes, and teachable and well-edited cases as its hallmarks, this is the authoritative law school casebook for the study of copyright law. The book presents up-to-date materials dealing both with new technologies and with the more "traditional" issues in the field.

Topics that receive particular attention include:

• The copyrightability of works having a functional character, including compilations, computer programs, and the problem of applied art;
• The application of the rights of distribution and public performance and display to the digital environment;
• The increasing expansion of the fair use doctrine through the development of the caselaw on “transformative use”;
• The caselaw on the limited liability of internet service providers;
• The Digital Millennium Copyright Act's provisions on technological protection measures and copyright management information are also covered, through well-selected cases and analysis of successive Copyright Office Rulemakings.