The Future of Copyright in a Digital Environment

This work is aimed at those with an interest in the challenges to copyright posed by the Internet and the emerging information superhighway. It contains a collection of papers, written by copyright scholars and practitioners, presented at the colloquium on The Future of Copyright in a Digital Environment in Amsterdam on July 6-7, 1995. This colloquium was organized by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam. This collection of papers covers topics which include: the scope of protected rights on the information superhighway; the application of exemptions and limitations; the collective administration of rights, resolving conflicts of law in an environment where territoriality is obsolete; alternatives to copyright protection; and designing copyright for the future.