- Collection:
- Dean Rusk International Law Center Collections
- Title:
- An Analysis of the Personal Use Principle under Copyright Law
- Creator:
- Cheng, Hsin-chih
- Date of Original:
- 1997-01-01
- Subject:
- University of Georgia. School of Law
Law--Study and teaching
International law - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- dissertations
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Copyright Law -- Personal Use Principle -- Stationers’ Copyright -- 1710 Statute of Anne -- Common Law in England -- Copyright Clause -- First Amendment -- Free Speech Rights -- Wheaton v. Peters -- Right to Copy -- Publication Requirement -- Fair use -- Personal Use -- Personal Users’ Tax -- 1976 Copyright Act -- Star Chamber Decree of 1637 -- Licensing Act of 1662 -- Battle of the Booksellers -- Millar v. Taylor -- Donaldson v. Beckett -- Intellectual Property Clause -- Public Domain -- Piracy -- Originality -- Implied Right of Access -- 1790 Copyright Act -- Baker v. Selden -- Folsom v. Marsh -- Wheaton v. Peters -- Ewer v. Coxe -- U.S. v. Worrall -- 1909 Copyright Act -- Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios Inc. -- Betamax Case -- Folsom v. Marsh -- Civil law -- Common law -- Constitutional Law -- European Law -- First Amendment -- Intellectual Property Law -- Law and Society -- Legislation
Personal use is when an individual uses a copyrighted work for private purposes, such as learning or entertainment. Personal use is a right given in the Copyright Clause of the U.S. Constitution, however, an issue arises when the individual wants to make a copy of the copyrighted work. New technologies like photocopying and videotaping make this issue more prominent today. Some copyright owners think that the individual’s copying for private use is harmful to their potential market and they argue for compensation. Does the individual have the right under the personal use principle to reproduce the copyrighted work for private reasons? If so, what is the scope of this kind of reproduction? In order to answer these questions, this paper examines two conflicting theories concerning the nature of copyright: the natural-law property right theory, and the positive-law theory. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/stu_llm/193
- Holding Institution:
- Alexander Campbell King Law Library
- Rights:
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