[Commons-Law] Anomalies in Copyright Law

[ANIRBAN MAZUMDER]

Hello,

I am Prof. Mazumder, and wish to share my latest pathbreaking article on 
copyright law and the anomalies therein. This paper was published in the 
November edition of the Journal of World Intellectual Property. Helpful 
comments are welcome.


http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1422-2213.2006.00306.x?cookieSet=1&journalCode=jwip



Abstract

The word copyright is a misnomer. The law of copyright is based on the 
encouragement of motive. Plagiarism is not necessarily copyright 
infringement and copyright infringement is not necessarily plagiarism. 
Copyright law is concerned, in essence, with the negative right of 
preventing the copying of physical material. Copyright is not a monopoly, 
unlike patent and registered design. Thus, if it can be shown that two 
precisely similar works were in fact produced wholly independently of one 
another, there can be no infringement of copyright by one or the other. 
Substantial similarity leading to copyright infringement is a grey area in 
copyright law. As per copyright law principles, making a digital copy itself 
is copyright infringement, no matter what amount of work is accessible to 
users. If a compilation work satisfies the originality criteria, that is 
'creativity', then it will be protected. There is no copyright in facts per 
se, but original expression of factual compilation can have copyright 
protection.








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