Birnhack

COLONIAL COPYRIGHT C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ACADEMIC
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 661g
• ISBN-13: 9780199661138
• ISBN-10: 0199661138
• Artikelnr.: 35710446

Autorenporträt

Michael Birnhack is a professor of law at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. He is fascinated by the way the law treats information and the interaction between law and culture. His research focuses on copyright, privacy, and freedom of expression, which he views as different aspects of information. Before joining Tel-Aviv University in 2007, he was a member of the faculty of law at Haifa University, where he was co-founder and co-director of the Haifa Centre of Law & Technology. He served on the board of several Israeli public bodies, including the Public Council for Privacy, the Ethics Centre in Jerusalem, and the Association of Civil Rights in Israel. Birnhack testified in the Knesset numerous times, on issues of copyright and privacy. He studied law at Tel-Aviv and at NYU School of Law and prior to his academic career he was a news reporter (legal affairs) and news editor for an Israeli radio station and then a member of the founding team of Channel 2 Television News.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Colonial Transplants
2: Colonial Copyright
3: The Making of British Colonial Copyright
4: Legislating Copyright in Palestine
5: Constructing Culture and the Image of the Hebrew Author
6: Copyright Law and Social Norms
7: Setting the Law in Motion
8: Copyright on the Air
9: Telegraphic News
10: Arab Copyright
11: At a Crossroad
Conclusion