Individual licensing models and the role of Internet platform providers

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

1-2017

Abstract

Internet platform providers (IPPs) have the potential of reaching every online user of copyrighted works and of enhancing the licensing efficiency of copyrighted works. This chapter explores legal mechanisms to transform this potential into reality: an obligation on copyright holders to issue license to active IPPs, an obligation on passive IPPs to acquire license from collective management organizations (CMOs) and the oversight over IPPs. It then discusses the desirability of cooperation among IPPs and CMOs. It concludes by venturing to advocate an international agreement that would facilitate global licensing of copyrighted works.

Keywords

Internet platform providers, Internet service providers, Compulsory copyright licensing, Collective management organization

Discipline

Intellectual Property Law | Internet Law

Research Areas

Innovation, Technology and the Law

Publication

Remuneration of copyright owners: Regulatory challenges of new business models

Volume

27

Editor

Liu Kung-Chung & Reto Hilty

First Page

227

Last Page

239

ISBN

9783662538081

Identifier

10.1007/978-3-662-53809-8_13

Publisher

Springer

City or Country

Berlin

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53809-8_13

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