Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
2016
Abstract
This Chapter addresses arguments for and against property rights in news, from the outset of national law efforts to safeguard the efforts of newsgathers, through the various unsuccessful attempts during the early part of the last century to fashion some form of international protection within the Berne Convention on literary and artistic works and the Paris Convention on industrial property. The Chapter next turns to contemporary endeavors to protect newsgatherers against “news aggregation” by online platforms. It considers the extent to which the aggregated content might be copyrightable, and whether, even if the content is protected, various exceptions set out in the Berne Convention permit its unlicensed appropriation.
Disciplines
Intellectual Property Law | Internet Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Sam Ricketson & Jane C. Ginsburg,
Intellectual Property in News? Why Not?,
Research Handbook on Intellectual Property in Media and Entertainment, Megan Richardson & Sam Ricketson (Eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017; U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper; Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-511
(2016).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/1978