Criminal Copyright

In this book, Eldar Haber describes how copyright has become over-criminalized.

Eldar Haber (Author)

9781108416511, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 August 2018

290 pages, 14 b/w illus. 5 tables
23.5 x 15.8 x 2 cm, 0.54 kg

'With criminal enforcement of intellectual property on the rise, we need to better understand the implications of criminalizing the unauthorized use of creative works. Haber offers a rigorous overview of criminal copyright, which tackles some of the most challenging questions in copyright law nowadays. This book is not only a must-read for scholars of copyright law, but also offers a useful framework to policymakers in crafting the scope of public enforcement.' Niva Elkin-Koren, Director of the Haifa Center for Law and Technology, University of Haifa and Harvard University, Massachusetts

Since the birth of criminal copyright in the nineteenth century, the copyright system has blurred the distinction between civil and criminal infringements. Today, in many jurisdictions, infringement of copyrighted materials can result in punitive fines and even incarceration. In this illuminating book, Eldar Haber analyzes the circumstances, justifications, and ramifications of the criminalization process and tells the story of how a legal right in the private enforcement realm has become over-criminalized. He traces the origins of criminal copyright legislation and follows the movement of copyright criminalization and enforcement on local and global scales. This important work should be read by anyone concerned with the future of copyright and intellectual property in the digital era.

Introduction
1. Criminal copyright overview
2. Copyright criminalization in the United Kingdom
3. Copyright criminalization in the United States
4. The criminal copyright gap
5. Internal reasoning for criminal copyright
6. External reasoning for criminal copyright
7. The copyright-criminal integration
8. An integrated approach for copyright criminalization
9. The future of criminal copyright and how to stop it
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Criminal justice law [LNFB], Criminal law & procedure [LNF], Treaties & other sources of international law [LBBC], Legal history [LAZ], Comparative law [LAM], Law [L]