Copyright Perspectives Past, Present and Prospect
This book provides international and domestic perspectives on the law of copyright and is led by a foreword on the future of copyright by Dr Francis Gurry, Director General of WIPO and a chapter on the lessons for copyright policy in classical Roman law,
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Brian Fitzgerald • John Gilchrist Editors
Copyright Perspectives Past, Present and Prospect
Editors Brian Fitzgerald Thomas More Academy of Law Australian Catholic University East Melbourne, VIC Australia
John Gilchrist Thomas More Academy of Law Australian Catholic University East Melbourne, VIC Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-15912-6 ISBN 978-3-319-15913-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15913-3
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Foreword: The Future of Copyright1
I am delighted to have the opportunity to participate in this Conference. I commend the Faculty of Law of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the principal organizers of the Conference, Professor Brian Fitzgerald and Ben Atkinson, for taking up the gauntlet thrown down by the digital society. Few issues in intellectual property or, if I may suggest, cultural policy are as important as the consequences of the revolutionary structural change introduced by digital technology and the Internet. Recently, as the number of people in the world with access to the Internet passes two billion,2 support for addressing the consequences of this fundamental change has come from the highest levels. Both President Sarkozy of France and President Medvedev of the Russian Federation have called for the G20 to consider the issue. In his speech at Davos earlier this year, President Medvedev stated that “the old principles of intellectual property regulation are not working anymore, particularly when it comes to the Internet”. That, he stated, “is fraught with the collapse of the entire intellectual property rights system”. Digita
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