Authors’ rights in the Anglo-Saxon world
Table of Contents
- Introduction.
- International rules.
- Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.
- Berne Convention and the WIPO.
- UCC and TRIPS.
- American authors right and notion of copyright.
- Copyright.
- Complementary rights.
- Last cases law.
- British rights.
- European efforts.
- Specificities of the British law.
- Conclusion.
- Bibliography.
SummaryThe authors' rights are a very important problem of the modern economic world. The rules that regulate the authors' rights have always been created in the reaction of some social facts; they always have been late on the sociological and technical transformations. The first fundamental act was the Statute of Anne in 1710. For the first time the notion of "copyright" was instituted but already on this time this decision just confirmed a social reality and the raise of importance of authors. After this first law almost nothing changed for authors during two centuries and it is just in 19th century that some improvement in their protection occurred. Today again the authors' rights are late on the reality. The internationalisation narrowed peoples and cultures and internet gave the opportunity to exchange information very easily and quickly. In front of these evolutions it is essential today to protect in a better way authors. The sector of culture represents a very high turnover, for example just in the United States the turnover of this sector was last year 537 billiards of dollars. And nowadays it has great difficulties, and firstly the sector music obviously, linked directly with all the piracy that has grown with internet.
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