Copyright: contemporary research handbook
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The first in the series of Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property brought out by Edward Elgar Publishing, Copyright Law: a Handbook of Contemporary Research is edited by eminent legal scholar Paul Torremans (School of Law, University of Nottingham, UK and Faculty of Law, University of Ghent, Belgium). According to the publisher’s blurb,
“Copyright law is undergoing rapid transformations to cope with the new international digital environment. This valuable research Handbook provides a thorough and contemporary tableau of current thinking in copyright law. It traces the changes undergone and the challenges faced by copyright, as well as its roots and its diversity, combining to present a colourful picture of a dynamic research area.
The editor brings together an elite group of international copyright scholars who offer incisive and original analysis of a wide range of issues and aspects of copyright law, and in some cases a multiplicity of perspectives on a single topic. Rigorous and often thought-provoking in nature, this research Handbook clearly maps the current landscape, and will also undoubtedly stimulate further research in the field.
Analysing the cutting edge of current copyright research, Copyright Law will be of great interest to researchers, students, practitioners and policymakers”.
IPKat team blogger Jeremy, who must declare his interest as Series Editor for the Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property, rather enjoys the fruits of the freedom that has been given to the contributors of this volume to say what they find interesting or worrying about their subjects of choice. It makes a pleasant enough change from reading exhaustive and earnest accounts of the law. Also, while many academics are a bit defensive about their special subjects, sending out a message of “This is MY subject, so keep of it!”, the tone of most of this collection is more one of “Come on…