Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Table of cases
- Table of statutes
- Introduction
- Part I Where we are
- Part II How we got here
- 6 Markets and metaphors
- 7 Copyright in supranational fora
- 8 Copyright in the domestic arena
- Part III Where we go from here
- Appendices
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Part I, Chapter III: ‘Permitted Acts’
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, s. 296ZE and Schedule 5A
- Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society
- United States Copyright Act 1976, 17 USC, s. 107
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Intellectual Property
6 - Markets and metaphors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Table of cases
- Table of statutes
- Introduction
- Part I Where we are
- Part II How we got here
- 6 Markets and metaphors
- 7 Copyright in supranational fora
- 8 Copyright in the domestic arena
- Part III Where we go from here
- Appendices
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Part I, Chapter III: ‘Permitted Acts’
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, s. 296ZE and Schedule 5A
- Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society
- United States Copyright Act 1976, 17 USC, s. 107
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Intellectual Property
Summary
Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves and not anything else, by the immobility of our conception of them.
Marcel Proust, Swann's WayThe aim thus far has been to demonstrate that the United Kingdom's existing approach to the permitted acts brings copyright into conflict with a number of important rights and interests and causes a range of real difficulties for both individual and institutional users. We hope that this analysis will speak for itself to some extent. In particular, we hope that our exploration of the practical difficulties that users face in various circumstances will give owner representatives pause for thought and will help counteract their natural reflex to oppose measures that would liberalise the exceptions. In the next three chapters we build on this analysis by exploring some of the reasons why the United Kingdom has adopted an overly restrictive approach to the exceptions. We argue that a variety of factors – political, constitutional, institutional and accidental – together with judicial attitudes have to be accounted for. An exploration of these factors reveals that the current approach to the exceptions does not result from the adoption of a coherent or well thought through approach to copyright as a whole. In so far as copyright can be said to have been consciously shaped, our analysis suggests that for the most part it has been crafted to reflect the interests of powerful and well-organised groups that are able to operate effectively at both the national and international level.
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- Copyright ExceptionsThe Digital Impact, pp. 167 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005