Includes papers presented at the conference "Evolution and equilibrium copyright this century" held under the auspcies of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand in 2012.-- page xi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Evolution and equilibrium : an introduction / Susy Frankel and Daniel Gervais -- Exceptional authorship : the role of copyright exceptions in promoting creativity / Jane C. Ginsburg -- After twenty years : revisiting copyright liability of online intermediaries / Niva Elkin-Koren -- Overlapping rights : the negative effects of trademarking creative works / Irene Calboli -- Beyond graduated response / Rebecca Giblin -- The rise of criminal enforcement of intellectual property rights... and its failure in the context of copyright infringement on the Internet / Christophe Geiger -- Administrative enforcement of copyright law in China : a characteristic deserving praise or repeal? / Luo Li -- Out of time? : Ccpyright law and the Australasian judiciary in the digital age / Susan Corbett -- Internet service provider liability for copyright infringement in Latin America / Pablo Wegbrait -- New technologies and the scale of copyright infringement : should size matter to liability? / Graeme Austin -- Facilitating access to information : understanding the role of technology in copyright law / Brad Sherman and Leanne Wiseman -- Is there potential for collective rights management at the global level? : perspectives of a new global constitutionalism in the creative sector / Christoph Graber -- Collective management in the twenty-first century from a competition law perspective / Yee Wah Chin -- . Copyright on the internet : consumer copying and collectives / Glynn Lunney -- Coda: fair trade music : letting the light shine in / Eddies Schwartz.

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