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Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Sphere

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Handbuch Soziale Praktiken und Digitale Alltagswelten

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Abstract

The chapter illustrates the difficulties in the regulation of information and content in the digital sphere offering a simple but complete overview of the legal instruments adopted in recent years around the world. In particular, it looks at these issues in the context of European and North American jurisdictions.

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    See e.g. the controversy over the constitutionality of the U.S. Communication Decency Act of 1996 in Reno v. Am. Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844 (1997) (overturning the Communications Decency Act which attempted to limit minors’ access to Internet pornography); or the case Ashcroft v. Am. Civil Liberties Union, 542 U.S. 656 (2004) (considering that the enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act should be enjoined because the law likely violates the First Amendment); or the more recent case of the French Hadopi law enacted to fight Internet piracy, partly censored by the French Conseil Constitutionnel. See Conseil Constitutionnel decision No. 2009–580 DC, June 10, 2009, Rec. 107.

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    Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, Sept. 9, 1886, 828 U.N.T.S. 221 (last revised at Paris, July 24, 1971). United States adhered to the Berne Convention on March 1, 1989.

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    The fair use exception is codified at 17 U.S.C. § 107 (2000).

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    The decision comes from Constantin Film and Wega v. UPC Telekabel Wien, a case brought to the Court of Justice by the Austrian Supreme Court on June 15, 2012. See Case C-314/12 UPC Telekabel Wien GmbH v Constantin Film Verleih GmbH and Wega Filmproduktionsgesellschaft mbHis, February 27, 2014.

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Lucchi, N. (2016). Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Sphere. In: Friese, H., Rebane, G., Nolden, M., Schreiter, M. (eds) Handbuch Soziale Praktiken und Digitale Alltagswelten. Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-08460-8_27-1

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