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Making Copyright Work for a Global Market: Policy Revision on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Copyright has become a more central part of society today than ever before. We have new objective evidence of the economic contribution of the copyright industries: in the United States, the Department of Commerce’s (DOC) 2012 report on “Intellectual Property and the U.S. Economy” found that copyright-intensive industries contributed $641 billion, or 4.4%, to the U.S. GDP in 2010, and provided more than 5 million jobs. Last year’s comparable study for Europe from the Office for Harmonization of the Internal Market (OHIM) found that copyright- intensive industries contributed 3.2% of total employment. And copyright has become more pervasive in the daily life of the ordinary person, not only as a user of content in the online environment, but also as a creator of new material and as a transformer and effectively a publisher of material created by others. As a result, almost every copyright issue these days sparks press coverage as well as public attention and debate.
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- Electronic commerce
- Copyright
- Law
- Intellectual property
- Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
- United States. Department of Commerce
- Directive 2001/29/EC (European Parliament)
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act (United States)
- World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty (1996 December 20)
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- Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.7916/jla.v38i1.2123
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- Academic Units
- Law
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- July 23, 2015