dc.contributor.author | Samartzi, Vasiliki | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-14T15:48:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-09-14T15:48:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Samartzi, V. 2013 Digital Rights Management and the Rights of End-Users. Queen Mary University of London. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8642 | |
dc.description | PhD | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Digital Rights Management systems (DRM) are frequently used by rightsholders in order to
protect their works from the, very high indeed, possibility to be copied, altered or
distributed without authorisation by users who take advantage of available state-of-the-art
copying techniques. Because DRM are legally protected by anti-circumvention legislation
both in the United States and in Europe, a debate goes on more than a decade now
regarding their impact to the notion of “balance” among copyright stakeholders that
traditionally underpinned copyright law. In this context, this study examines, in turn, the
philosophical underpinnings of analogue and digital copyright law focusing of copyright
exceptions, the development of a notion of a minimum of lawful personal use for the digital
environment based on existing copyright exceptions and users’ expectations of personal use,
and the impact of the use of DRM and of the introduction of anti-circumvention legislation
to this notion. While the European Information Society Directive 2001/29/EC (EUCD) is the
main legal instrument analysed and criticised, the role of other Directives is also examined to
the extent they address the relationship between lawful personal use and anticircumvention
legislation. Legal developments in the United States could not have been
absent from this discussion since anti-circumvention legislation was introduced there much
earlier than the EUCD and important case-law and legal commentaries have developed
since. Following the identification of problems regarding the operation of a minimum of
lawful personal use in digital settings, the proposal to introduce a right to engage in self-help
circumvention afforded to users of DRM-protected works for Europe is put-forward. Such a
right would not undermine rightsholders incentives to offer works online and develop new
business models but would acknowledge the users’ interest to interact and tinker with
digital works taking full advantage of the new possibilities offered by digitisation. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Greek State Scholarships Foundation (SSF) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Queen Mary University of London | |
dc.subject | Medicine | en_US |
dc.subject | Neuroscience | en_US |
dc.subject | Nerve injury | en_US |
dc.subject | Nerve repair | en_US |
dc.title | Digital Rights Management and the Rights of End-Users. | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without the prior written consent of the author | |