The Digital Reproduction Right

ACCESS-RIGHT: THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL COPYRIGHT LAW, p. 203, OUP 2011

46 Pages Posted: 23 Jan 2011

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Zohar Efroni

Stanford's Center for Internet and Society

Date Written: January 19, 2011

Abstract

A great amount of intellectual energy has been spent in recent years on attempts to remodel exemptions to exclusive rights, and as specifically discussed in this chapter, exceptions to the reproduction right, in efforts to prevent overprotection and preserve the so-called delicate copyright balance.

The analysis in this chapter and the limited force of its own proposal concerning the question of fixation lead to the conclusion that an exclusive right tailored around the concept of fixation of message signals cannot continue to be one of the most basic building blocks of copyright law.

It shall be posited that and explained why the reproduction right belongs to past chapters in copyright law’s evolution; it has grown evidently unsuitable to lead the copyright system into the digital future. This is because the notion of fixation is structurally inimical to contemporary modes and methods of providing and gaining access to digital information. Fixation, in other words, is the “yesterday” of copyright law. Modern-day legislatures will sooner or later have to tackle the problem of finding alternative concepts around which the apparatus of exclusivity is tailored.

Keywords: reproduction right, copyright, access-right

Suggested Citation

Efroni, Zohar, The Digital Reproduction Right (January 19, 2011). ACCESS-RIGHT: THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL COPYRIGHT LAW, p. 203, OUP 2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1743506

Zohar Efroni (Contact Author)

Stanford's Center for Internet and Society ( email )

Stanford, CA 94305
United States

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