International Copyright and Neighbouring Rights

Sam Ricketson has taught, researched, published and practised in the area of intellectual property law since the late 1970's. His interests are both at the national and international levels, with other interests in legal history, the history of science and technology and public and private international law. Prior to his retirement in April 2019, he was a professor in the Melbourne Law School and prior to this at Monash University, and he also practised part-time at the Victorian Bar until mid-2015. He Is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Academy of Law, and is now Emeritus Professor of Law at the Melbourne Law School.Jane C. Ginsburg, is the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia University School of Law, and Faculty Director of its Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts. She teaches copyright law, international copyright law, trademarks law, legal methods, and statutory interpretation, and is an author of casebooks in all five subjects, as well as of many books, articles and book chapters on domestic and international copyright and trademark law. She is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the American Philosophical Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.

• I: History and Development of International Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Conventions 1: The Development of International Copyright Relations 2: Origins of the Berne Convention 3: The Subsequent Development of the Berne Convention, 1886-1971 4: Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Come of Age: Digitization and International Trade II: Preliminary Matters: Berne and Related Agreements in the Framework of Public International Law 5: Treaty Interpretation and the Concept of Union III: The Berne Convention and Beyond 6: Fundamentals of Protection 7: Authorship and Ownership 8: Works Protected by the Convention 9: Duration of Protection 10: The Rights Protected by the Convention 11: The Rights of Reproduction, Adaptation, and Distribution 12: Rights of Communication to the Public 13: Restrictions on the Exercise of Rights: Limitations and Exceptions 14: New International Obligations 15: Developing Countries 16: Administrative and Financial Provisions 17: Membership, Territory, and Application of the Berne Convention and Later Agreements IV: Other Conventions on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights 18: The Berne Convention and other Related International Conventions on Copyright 19: The Berne Convention and Neighbouring Rights V: Private International Law Aspects of International Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Protection 20: Private International Law Matters: Jurisdiction and Applicable Law