Multimedia products have experienced tremendous market success. Yet too often they are given inadequate protection under existing national and international copyright schemes. Irini Stamatoudi provides a comprehensive, comparative treatment of multimedia works and copyright protection in this clear and concise volume. A detailed introduction outlines the nature of the multimedia work, as well as the scope of existing legislation; separate chapters consider collections and compilations, databases, audiovisual works and computer programs (video games are here treated as a 'test case'). Stamatoudi then analyses issues of qualification, regime of protection, and offers a model for a European legislative solution. Copyright and Multimedia Products will interest academics and students, as well as practitioners and copyright policy makers.
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' this is an extremely impressive piece of research a valuable contribution to the debate surrounding intellectual property protection of multimedia.' The European Intellectual Property Review
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A treatment of copyright issues relating to multimedia (databases, audiovisual works and computer programs).
Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction;
1. Placing multimedia products within the scope of copyright;
2. The scope of multimedia works;
3. Traditional literary works;
4. Collections and compilations;
5. Databases;
6. Audiovisual works;
7. Computer programs;
8. Video games as a test case;
9. Multimedia products and existing categories of copyright works;
10. A regime of protection for multimedia products;
11. Conclusion; Postscript; Bibliography; Index.
IRINI A. STAMATOUDI is Lecturer in Law at the University of Leicester. Her previous publications include Copyright and the new Digital Environment: The Need to Redesign Copyright (co-edited with P. Torremans, 2000).
