- Collection:
- Dean Rusk International Law Center Collections
- Title:
- Fair Use in American and Continental Laws
- Creator:
- Obeidat, Omar M.A.
- 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:
- Natural Law Theory of Copyright -- Continental System of Copyright -- Anglo-Saxon System of Copyright -- Fair Use Doctrine -- Fair Use Treatment -- Fair Use in France -- Berne Convention -- Property -- Common law -- Open market economy -- Free trade -- Individual rights -- Intellectual property -- Tangible property -- Droit d’auteur -- US Constitution -- Copyright Clause -- Utilitarian economic approach -- House of Commons of England -- Licensing Act of 1662 -- Stationers’ Company -- United States Copyright Act of 1976 -- Judge Mansfield -- Roman law -- Jus gentium -- Occupatio -- Principle of occupancy -- John Locke -- Francis Hutchenson -- Hugo Grotius -- French Revolution -- Moral rights -- Droit moral -- Italian Law for the Protection of Copyright and Other Rights with the Exercise Thereof -- Goethe -- Act Dealing with Copyright and Related Rights -- Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works -- Tunisian Law on Literary and Artistic Property -- Jordanian Law on the Protection of Copyright of 1992 -- Statute of Queen Anne of 1709 -- English Patents -- Public interest theory -- United Kingdom Copyright Statute -- Wheaton v. Peters -- Alfred Yen -- Copyright Act of 1909 -- Donaldson v. Beckett -- Millar v. Taylor -- Fairness and justice -- Feist Publications Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Company Inc. -- Mazer v. Stein -- Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. -- Berne Convention Implementation Act -- BCIA -- Paris Text of 1971 -- Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music Inc. -- Remuneration -- German copyright amendment of 1985 -- Folsom v. Marsh -- Gray v. Russell -- L. Ray Patterson -- Sony Corp. of Am. v. Universal City Studios. Inc. -- Harper & Row Publishers. Inc. v. Nation Enters. -- Sega Enterprises Ltd. v. Accolade Inc. -- Stewart v. Abend -- Melville Nimmer -- Parody -- French copyright law -- Reprography -- Court of Cassation -- Civil law -- Comparative and Foreign Law -- Constitutional Law -- European Law -- First Amendment -- Intellectual Property Law -- Law and Philosophy -- Law and Society -- Legislation -- Natural Law -- Public Law and Legal Theory
Intellectual property, unlike tangible property, does not exclusively occupy one place at a designated time. Instead, intellectual property is composed of information which can be reproduced or used in multiple places at any given time. This fundamental difference between intellectual and tangible property is reflected in the legal provisions that regulate these types of property. There are two dominant theories that justify the legal protection of intellectual property: the individualistic European approach, and the commercial Anglo-American approach. Under the European approach, the protection of the creation is a natural right guaranteed to the author. In other words, natural law guarantees the droit d’auteur (right of the author). Under the commercial Anglo-American approach, the protection of a creation is not a natural right, but instead is expressed in the form of economic incentive granting the creator a right to copy. The United States Constitution supports the latter approach in its Copyright Clause. This clause emphasizes the importance of limiting the time that the author has an exclusive right to the creation, in order to “promote the progress of science and useful arts.” The United States Supreme Court has also established support for the utilitarian economic approach in its decisions. Despite this, some scholars are calling against the economic approach and for the need to restore natural law theory in American copyright. This paper argues that the efforts to incorporate natural law theory in American copyright law would be undesirable, and that natural law concepts are incompatible with existing American copyright law. The two theories and their origins will be examined in order to show this, as well as the concept and scope of the fair use doctrine in American law and the Continental system. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/stu_llm/201
- Holding Institution:
- Alexander Campbell King Law Library
- Rights:
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