Copyright Exhaustion

Péter Mezei is an associate professor at the University of Szeged, an adjunct professor (dosentti) at the University of Turku, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Jean Moulin Lyon III. Both in lecturing and in research, he has specialized in comparative digital copyright law. He contributed to several international research studies commissioned by the European Commission. He has been selected to write national reports to the 2010, 2014, and 2022 International Comparative Law Congress. He is a member of the European Copyright Society and the Hungarian Copyright Expert Board.

• Introduction; 1. The theory of exhaustion; 2. The doctrine of exhaustion in the copyright law of the European Union; 3. The first sale doctrine in the copyright law of the United States; 4. Digital exhaustion in the European Union and the United States; Conclusion.

'Professor Mezei continues to make major contributions to Intellectual Property scholarship with the second edition of his Copyright Exhaustion. Legal scholars and policy makers were charged by the synthesis of doctrine and policy in the first edition. The speed with which the second edition has appeared attests to the vibrancy of copyright exhaustion. Professor Mezei has made a mark in the field, and anyone active in the world of copyright and intellectual property must engage with his work.' Shubha Ghosh, Crandall Melvin Professor of Law, Syracuse University College of Law