International Copyright Issues in Action: A Trip Demonstrated How Intellectual Property Law Works Around the World
Information Today, Vol. 19, No. 9, p. 19, October 2002
4 Pages Posted: 10 Jul 2010
Date Written: October 2002
Abstract
It’s tough to describe my summer with a straight face, but here it goes: I was on the cruise ship MTS World Renaissance, a “floating university” where I spent my summer teaching law and political science. The nine-week sea voyage visited several ports in eastern and Western Europe including stops in Greece, Russia, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Ireland and Norway.
It is not my intention to spend this column expounding on the travel and discovery opportunities of the voyage (although I could.) However, as an instructor (on the trip) and an information professional (my “day job”) it presented an interesting opportunity to move beyond the cliché of “global information networks.” I had a small glimpse of the world of information “haves” and “have nots” and saw how both U.S. and international copyright laws affect day to day life in a variety of contexts.
Keywords: copyright law, international copyright laws, lawsuits, technology, infringement, global information networks, World Wide Web, Internet, liability, exemptions, government documents, international fair use, market effect
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