Copyright Exhaustion
Law and Policy in the United States and the European Union

An updated, comprehensive analysis of the European and US approaches to the exhaustion doctrine in the online and offline world.

Péter Mezei (Author)

9781108843140, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 February 2022

250 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 2 cm, 0.54 kg

'The second edition of Dr Péter Mezei's book integrates recent developments in the highest courts into an already rich and comprehensive analysis of the first sale and exhaustion doctrines. The volume highlights the relevance of the theory of copyright exhaustion for the development of copyright law in general by examining its roots, rationales and historical developments into its current shape. Mezei guides the reader expertly through one of the fundamental pillars of copyright law and policy.' Dr. Bernd Justin Jütte, Assistant Professor in Intellectual Property, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin

In the Second Edition of Copyright Exhaustion, copyright scholar Péter Mezei offers an expanded examination of copyright exhaustion, including its historical development, theoretical framework, practical applications, and policy considerations. He includes updated case law and statutory developments for the first-sale doctrine in the United States and in the European Union, covering both analogue and digital applications with an eye toward scrutinizing the common rejection of exhaustion in the resale of digital subject matter including computer programs, sound recordings, audiovisual works, and e-books. He advocates for a digital first-sale doctrine that would offer legal consistency to copyright law and a technologically feasible framework for content producers and consumers.

Introduction
1. The theory of exhaustion
2. The doctrine of exhaustion in the copyright law of the European Union
3. The first sale doctrine in the copyright law of the United States
4. Digital exhaustion in the European Union and the United States
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Copyright law [LNRC], Intellectual property law [LNR], Comparative law [LAM], Law [L], Comparative politics [JPB]