Traditional safety valves

In copyright law, the traditional safety valves are the techniques that balance the public's interest in open access with the property interest of copyright owners and the pressing legislation to give those techniques credibility of law through digital rights management.[1] Digital rights management techniques were created by the media industry in order to strengthen control over media use. The antithesis to digital rights management is open access (publishing). Open access allows people to publish their knowledge goods right into the public and skip privatization. The safety valves are in place to ensure the flow of intellectual property from private ownership into public view while keeping the interests of both in mind.

Two safety valves that apply both to copyrights and to patents are:

These additional safety valves apply to copyrights:

See also

References

  1. Kranich, Nancy (June 2004). Heins, Marjorie, ed. "The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report" (PDF). Free Expression Policy Project. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  2. Hirtle, Peter B. (3 January 2013). "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States". Cornell University. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
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