Special Issues


The Copyright Debate

 

Certain experiences with academic publishing and recent debates world-wide about revision of copyright law, provoked a lively debate within IASPM:

Shall IASPM take Action?
The first copyright debate
on IASPM's international mailing list
July 1998

Copyright Panel
at the IASPM-UK conference
12th September 1998
in Liverpool/United Kingdom

Lyrics Server down!
Recent copyright debate
on the IASPM mailing list after
the Swiss Lyrics Server was shut down by police
since 25th January 1999


 

International Links to the
Copyright Issue

Associations + Organisations

IIPA
International Intellectual
Property Alliance
WIPO
World Intellectual Property Organization
WTO
World Trade Organization
CISAC
International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers
BIEM
Bureau International des Sociétés Gerant les Droits d'Enregistrement et de Reproduction Mecanique

Legal Situation

Berne Convention
for the Protection of
Literary and Artistic Works
Imprimatur
Intellectual Multimedia Property RIghts Model And Terminology
for Universal Reference

U.S. Copyright Office
(Library of Congress)
E©UP
European Copyright User Platfrom


 

Other Sources

Music Industry
bibliography - Centre for Popular Music Research

Copyright & Related Rights
The International Dimension
by Keith Acheson Christopher J. Maule, Carleton University