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1 Online-Ressource (X, 294 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781350217997
Content:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Internet, entertainment and copyright: a political perspective -- 1 Copyright politics and the Internet: an introduction -- 2 Copyright and the Internet: what is at stake? -- Part II The American influence: America, ACTA and Special 301 -- 3 Entertaining American objectives -- 4 A secret copyright treaty -- 5 Brussels copyfights -- 6 The EU masquerade -- 7 Special 301 for Spain -- 8 Ley Sinde -- Part III The politics of music: Britain and the Digital Economy Act -- 9 A memorandum with no understanding -- 10 Ministerial manoeuvres -- 11 Looking behind the myth -- 12 Musical lawyers -- 13 Obstacles in the Lords -- 14 A cowed Parliament -- 15 Lifting the masks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
This highly original analysis of three attempts to bring in new laws to defend copyright on the Internet - ACTA, Ley Sinde and the Digital Economy Act - investigates the dance of influence between lobbyists and their political proxies and unmasks the sophistry of their arguments. Copyright expert Monica Horten outlines the myriad ways that lobbyists contrived to bypass democratic process and persuade politicians to take up their cause in imposing an American corporate agenda
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780326412
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ISBN 9781780326436
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ISBN 1780326432
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ISBN 1780326416
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ISBN 1780326408
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ISBN 9781780326405
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ISBN 1780326440
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ISBN 9781780326443
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ISBN 9781780326412
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Horten, Monica, 1960 - A copyright masquerade London [u.a.] : Zed Books, 2013 ISBN 9781780326405
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780326412
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
Keywords:
USA
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Europa
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Urheberrecht
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Lobbyismus
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Unternehmen
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Informationsfreiheit
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Internet
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350217997
