Oxford University Press The WIPO Treaties on Copyright: A Commentary on the WCT, the WPPT, and the BTAP

This work is the leading guide to the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT), the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT), and the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances and includes a chapter on the Marrakesh Treaty of 2013. More than ten years have passed since the entry into force of the WCT and the WPPT. This revised commentary on the treaties reflects on the impact of their implementation and illustrates how they have come to be applied in different ways in particular through national legislation. It gives a detailed analysis of the development and meaning of all articles of these treaties and integrates current debates on copyright and neighbouring rights protection in the digital age. Written by two leading experts in copyright law, both closely involved in the evolution of the treaties and their implementation into national and EU law, this work is the definitive guide to the recently adopted international copyright treaties. Review In this thorough, detailed, and sophisticated treatise on the international law of copyright, the authors provide another timely, long-awaited and rare guide to international treaties on copyright. Over a decade has passed since the publication of the first edition and the new edition is again an illuminating source on the global copyright regime. Many treat landmark texts as the definitive treatise on some sort of discipline. For international copyright, we have Jörg Reinbothe and Silke von Lewinski. The WIPO Treaties on Copyright is a model book...a study that should serve as a torch in the ongoing search of scholars and policy-makers to find the right definitional boundaries of global copyright norms. ― Lior Zemer, Radzyner School of Law, European Intellectual Property Review About the Author Jorg Reinbothe, European Commission, Silke Von Lewinski, Max Planck Institute of Intellectual Property