Download or read book Remuneration for the Use of Works written by Silke von Lewinski and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royalty payments are once again becoming a hot button issue for authors and artists, as well as other holders of copyright or related rights, because they fail to receive adequate compensation for the use of their work on the internet. This volume from the 2015 ALAI Congress contributes to the international discussion of this issue by examining the causes of the problem and possible solutions, including a set of business models to compensate for internet usage. The volume contains mainly English as well as French and Spanish contributions.
Download or read book Remuneration of Copyright Owners written by Kung-Chung Liu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates existing and explores new mechanisms for the adequate payment of copyright owners for the use of their works. The underlying assumption is that adequate rewards to creators and subsequent right holders will continue to be a goal of copyright law (particularly to incentivize further creation and investment). In the search for viable methods it first focuses on the reduction of transaction costs and the role of new technologies. It also discusses the further development and broader application of new mechanisms that might be necessary to enhance the adequacy and efficiency of payment systems, since the more onerous payment systems are, the more irrelevant copyright risks become due to lack of acceptance, and the less likely both are to fulfill their functions.
Download or read book Copyright written by Neil Weinstock Netanel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copyright law was once an esoteric backwater, the special province of professional authors, publishers, and media companies. This is no longer the case. In the age of social media and cloud storage, we have become a copying and sharing culture. Much of our everyday communication, work, and entertainment now directly involves copyright law. Copyright law and policy are ferociously contested. Record labels, movie studios, book publishers, newspapers, and many authors rage that those who share music, video, text, and images over the Internet are "stealing" their property. By contrast, copyright industry critics celebrate digital technology's potential to make the universe of movies, music, books, and art accessible anytime and anywhere - and to empower individuals the world over to express themselves by sharing and remixing those works. These critics argue that excessive copyright enforcement threatens that promise and stifles creativity. In Copyright: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Neil Netanel explains the concepts needed to understand the heated debates about copyright law and policy. He identifies the combatants, unpacks their arguments, and illuminates what is at stake in the debates over copyright's present and future.
Download or read book Copyright in the Age of Online Access written by João Pedro Quintais and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " In addition to proving virtually impossible, online enforcement of copyright may be undesirable because it risks encroaching upon fundamental rights and freedoms. However, the problem remains that creators are often not fairly remunerated for the online use of their works. This book addresses the urgent need to study pragmatic legal solutions that enable Internet users to access works in the digital environment, while assuring remuneration to rights holders and promoting the development of the information society. This study examines legalisation schemes that favour remunerated access over exclusivity and enforcement for large-scale online use by individuals. It investigates whether and to what extent these schemes (referred to as alternative compensation systems) are admissible under EU copyright law and consistent with its objectives, responding to such questions as the following in depth: - What existing copyright schemes provide an alternative to the exclusive right in copyright law? - What online rights apply to the activities of Internet users? - What types of models exist for the legalisation of online use of copyright works? - How can the public interest shape the scope of protection of copyright? - Can and should we legalise non-commercial file sharing and online use in EU copyright law? The book carefully examines these questions in light of EU primary law, relevant directives (with a focus on the InfoSoc Directive), case law (especially that of the CJEU), and legal literature in the field of copyright. The analysis culminates with a proposed blueprint for a compensated limitation for non-commercial individual use that is consistent with EU copyright law. As a thoroughly researched and balanced response to the urgent need to rethink EU copyright law in light of its lack of social acceptance and technological adequacy, this book will be of inestimable value to lawyers, policymakers, and scholars in the field, as well as to interest groups involved in discussions for reform and modernisation of EU digital copyright law. "
Download or read book Shadow Libraries written by Joe Karaganis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks. From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the institutions that shape the provision of educational materials, from the formal sector of universities and publishers to the broadly informal ones organized by faculty, copy shops, student unions, and students themselves. It looks at the history of policy battles over access to education in the post–World War II era and at the narrower versions that have played out in relation to research and textbooks, from library policies to book subsidies to, more recently, the several “open” publication models that have emerged in the higher education sector. From the bottom up, Shadow Libraries explores how, simply, students get the materials they need. It maps the ubiquitous practice of photocopying and what are—in many cases—the more marginal ones of buying books, visiting libraries, and downloading from unauthorized sources. It looks at the informal networks that emerge in many contexts to share materials, from face-to-face student networks to Facebook groups, and at the processes that lead to the consolidation of some of those efforts into more organized archives that circulate offline and sometimes online— the shadow libraries of the title. If Alexandra Elbakyan's Sci-Hub is the largest of these efforts to date, the more characteristic part of her story is the prologue: the personal struggle to participate in global scientific and educational communities, and the recourse to a wide array of ad hoc strategies and networks when formal, authorized means are lacking. If Elbakyan's story has struck a chord, it is in part because it brings this contradiction in the academic project into sharp relief—universalist in principle and unequal in practice. Shadow Libraries is a study of that tension in the digital era. Contributors Balázs Bodó, Laura Czerniewicz, Miroslaw Filiciak, Mariana Fossatti, Jorge Gemetto, Eve Gray, Evelin Heidel, Joe Karaganis, Lawrence Liang, Pedro Mizukami, Jhessica Reia, Alek Tarkowski
Download or read book E COMMERCE AND ITS IMPACT ON GLOBAL BUSINESS written by Dr. Bhadrappa Haralayya and published by Xoffencerpublication. This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transaction of products and services via the internet is referred to as "e-commerce," which is an abbreviation of the phrase "electronic commerce." It includes conducting commercial transactions and the exchange of information, goods, and services through the internet between various organizations, including consumers and enterprises. E-commerce has seen enormous growth in popularity and has fundamentally altered the method in which companies function as well as how customers purchase. E-commerce comprises a number of different models, such as business-to-consumer (B2C), consumer-to-consumer (C2C), and consumer-to-business (C2B). E-commerce that is conducted between companies and individual customers, known as business-to consumer or B2C for short, takes place entirely online. Transactions between companies are the primary emphasis of business-to-business, or B2B, e-commerce, which includes the sale of goods from wholesalers to retailers. C2C e-commerce refers to the practice of consumers doing business directly with one another via the use of online marketplaces to purchase and sell goods and services. Consumers providing products or services to companies is an example of business-to-business, or C2B, e commerce. This might include freelancing work or user-generated content. Many different things have contributed to the expansion of online shopping over the last few years. To begin, the proliferation of internet access and the steady march of technological progress have made it simpler for individuals to communicate with one another and do business through the internet. In addition, because of the ease of use and accessibility provided by e-commerce, this mode of doing business has become an appealing alternative for both consumers and companies. Consumers have the ability to buy from the convenience of their own homes while having access to a diverse selection of goods and services thanks to the rise of e-commerce, which also enables companies to access a worldwide client base and remain open around the clock. The term "global business" refers to the operation of commercial enterprises that extend beyond the confines of a single nation's borders. It includes the trading of products, 1 | P a ge services, and resources between other nations or areas of the world. The facilitation of commercial connections on a worldwide scale has been significantly aided by the rise of globalization as well as developments in transportation, communication, and technology. International commerce, foreign direct investment (also known as FDI), outsourcing, and multinational businesses (also known as MNCs) are all components that are included in global business. The movement of products and services across international boundaries is a fundamental aspect of international commerce. When a domestic corporation expands its activities into another nation, this is an example of foreign direct investment (FDI). The term "outsourcing" refers to the practice of contracting a business process or service to an external provider, who is often based in a foreign nation, in order to take advantage of the cost benefits or specialized skills offered by the external supplier. Multinational corporations (MNCs) are businesses that have activities and assets in more than one nation. This gives them the ability to do business on a worldwide scale. Participating in economic activities on a global scale comes with a number of benefits. It gives them access to broader markets, enables them to tap into new consumer groups, and helps them to diversify their income Sources. Companies may also reap the benefits of cost savings by doing business on a global scale. This might include gaining access to cheaper manufacturing costs or capitalizing on the specialized talents and reSources that are readily accessible in other nations. In addition, globalization has made it easier for people to share their information and ideas with one another, which has led to an increase in innovative practices and cross-national cooperation. However, doing business on a global scale also presents a number of problems. Companies are required to negotiate multiple cultural, legal, and regulatory settings, as well as manage the varying preferences of their customers and the circumstances of their target markets. They need to be able to comprehend various economic systems, languages, and commercial practices, as well as adapt to such differences. In addition, the likes of geopolitical considerations, trade restrictions, and currency changes may all have an effect on the operations of multinational businesses.
Download or read book Toward A Competitive Telecommunication Industry written by Gerald W. Brock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an authoritative perspective on the best current research regarding telecommunication policy, this book is based on the 22nd Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. The papers focus on the critical policy issues created by increasing competition in the industry. The book contains a careful analysis of local competition and interconnection, international competition, universal service issues, the Internet and emerging new methods of communication, and the first amendment problems created by changing telecommunication technology. It brings together -- in a convenient form -- a wide range of important scholarship on telecommunication policy that otherwise would require extensive research into a variety of journals, government filings, and unpublished papers.
Download or read book System Innovation for Sustainability 1 written by Arnold Tukker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) was adopted as a priority area during the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002 and has since become one of the main vehicles for targeting international sustainability policy. Sustainable consumption focuses on formulating equitable strategies that foster the highest quality of life, the efficient use of natural resources, and the effective satisfaction of human needs while simultaneously promoting equitable social development, economic competitiveness, and technological innovation. But this is a complex topic and, as the challenges of sustainability grow larger, there is a need to re-imagine how SCP policies can be formulated, governed and implemented. The EU-funded project "Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges" (SCORE!) consists of around 200 experts in the field of sustainable innovation and sustainable consumption. The SCORE! philosophy is that innovation in SCP policy can be achieved only if experts that understand business development, (sustainable) solution design, consumer behaviour and system innovation policy work together in shaping it. Sustainable technology design can be effective only if business can profitably make the products and consumers are attracted to them. To understand how this might effectively happen, the expertise of systems thinkers must be added to the mix. System Innovation for Sustainability 1 is the first result of a unique positive confrontation between experts from all four communities. It examines what SCP is and what it could be, provides a state-of-the-art review on the governance of change in SCP policy and looks at the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches. The SCORE! experts are working with actors in industry, consumer groups and eco-labelling organisations in the key consumption areas of mobility, food and agriculture, and energy use and housing – responsible for 70% of the life-cycle environmental impacts of Western societies – with the aim of stimulating, fostering or forcing change to SCP theory in practice. The System Innovation for Sustainability series will continue with three further volumes of comprehensive case studies in each of these three critical consumption areas. Each chapter of this book examines problems and suggests solutions from a business, design, consumer and system innovation perspective. It primarily examines the differing solutions necessary in the consumer economies of the West, but also comments on the differing needs in rapidly emerging economies such as China, as well as base-of-the-pyramid economies. The System Innovation for Sustainability series is the fruit of the only major international research network on SCP and will set the standard in this field for some years to come. It will be required reading for all involved in the policy debate on sustainable production and consumption from government, business, academia and NGOs for designers, scientists, businesses and system innovators.
Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smart Urbanism written by Simon Marvin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart Urbanism (SU) – the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people – is being represented as a unique emerging ‘solution’ to the majority of problems faced by cities today. SU discourses, enacted by technology companies, national governments and supranational agencies alike, claim a supremacy of urban digital technologies for managing and controlling infrastructures, achieving greater effectiveness in managing service demand and reducing carbon emissions, developing greater social interaction and community networks, providing new services around health and social care etc. Smart urbanism is being represented as the response to almost every facet of the contemporary urban question. This book explores this common conception of the problematic of smart urbanism and critically address what new capabilities are being created by whom and with what exclusions; how these are being developed - and contested; where is this happening both within and between cities; and, with what sorts of social and material consequences. The aim of the book is to identify and convene a currently fragmented and disconnected group of researchers, commentators, developers and users from both within and outside the mainstream SU discourse, including several of those that adopt a more critical perspective, to assess ‘what’ problems of the city smartness can address The volume provides the first internationally comparative assessment of SU in cities of the global north and south, critically evaluates whether current visions of SU are able to achieve their potential; and then identifies alternative trajectories for SU that hold radical promise for reshaping cities.
Download or read book Intellectual Property Ordering beyond Borders written by Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past century, intellectual property (IP) law has expanded within and beyond national borders. The field of IP law was once a niche area concerning authors, inventors, and trademark owners. Today, IP law acts as a complex regime of instruments, institutions, and actors that negotiate overlapping, diverging, and occasionally competing public policies on a global scale. As IP continues to expand beyond borders, the instruments and tools utilised for its global protection rely on public international law as the common denominator and unifying frame. Intellectual Property Ordering Beyond Borders provides an evaluation of the most pertinent public international law questions raised by this multidimensional expansion. This comprehensive and far-reaching volume tackles problems such as generalist approaches under the law of treaties; custom and general principles; interfaces between IP and other normative orders, such as trade and investment; and interdisciplinary accounts from the economic, political, and social science perspectives. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Download or read book Security Engineering written by Ross Anderson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-03-23 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference guide to creating high quality security software covers the complete suite of security applications referred to as end2end security. It illustrates basic concepts of security engineering through real-world examples.
Download or read book Exploring the Culture of Open Innovation written by Piero Formica and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed entrepreneurship and innovation scholar Piero Formica, along with a strong and diverse cast of international contributors, explore the world of Open Innovation in this volume.
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Download or read book Regulating Big Tech written by Martin Moore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The market size and strength of the major digital platform companies has invited international concern about how such firms should best be regulated to serve the interests of wider society, with a particular emphasis on the need for new anti-trust legislation. Using a normative innovation systems approach, this paper investigates how current anti-trust models may insufficiently address the value-extracting features of existing data-intensive and platform-oriented industry behaviour and business models. To do so, we employ the concept of economic rents to investigate how digital platforms create and extract value. Two forms of rent are elaborated: 'network monopoly rents' and 'algorithmic rents.' By identifying such rents more precisely, policymakers and researchers can better direct regulatory investigations, as well as broader industrial and innovation policy approaches, to shape the features of platform-driven digital markets"--
Download or read book EVENTS written by Kevin Van der Straeten and published by eventplanner.tv. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EVENTS² is a reference guide for every organizer of events and parties. This new edition on event planning and event management is thicker than ever before, offers more depth and insight, and also contains a whole host of entirely new topics that you, as an organizer, simply cannot afford to miss! This fully updated edition is thicker than ever before and contains completely new topics that you, as an organizer, just cannot afford to miss out on! Think 'green events', 'hybrid events'... But also ROI, event logistics, marketing, security and creative business models will be discussed extensively. All the other chapters have also been completely revised and updated. EVENTS² is a complete guide for anyone interested in all aspects of the organization of events, congresses, meetings and parties: from the preparation of the event to the event itself, and the evaluation afterwards. The book is packed with practical tips and useful checklists for both corporate events as well as private parties. EVENTS² ensures that nothing is overlooked, while keeping your eye firmly focused on the smallest details. The book has its finger on the pulse of the very latest trends in the events industry. EVENTS 2 was created in collaboration with dozens of professionals in the event industry as well as event management mentors. This eBook will be delivered digitally in PDF format.
Download or read book Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Green Energy Environment and Sustainable Development GEESD2022 written by X. Zhang and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the general acknowledgement that climate change constitutes an existential threat to both mankind and to the planet, the quest for more sustainable and environmentally-friendly ways of developing and maintaining human civilizations has become ever more important in recent years. This book presents the proceedings of GEESD2022, the 3rd International Conference on Green Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development. Due to continuing travel restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was held as a hybrid event, part face-to-face in Beijing, China, and partly online via Zoom, on 29 June 2022. The 141 papers included here were selected after a rigorous 6-month process of evaluation and peer-review from the more than 300 submissions received, and are grouped into 7 sections: energy system and smart control; sustainable and green energy; environmental modeling and simulation; environmental science and pollution research; ecology and rural environment; building and environment; and water and mineral resources. The book provides an overview of the most up-to-date findings and technologies current in green energy, environment and sustainable development today, and will be of interest to all those working in the field.
