Codification of European copyright law : challenges and perspectives / editor: Tatiana-Eleni Synodinou.

This book reprints the papers presented at an international conference held in Nicosia, Cyprus on April 14-15, 2011 entitled "International Conference on European Copyright Law: Towards a European Copyright Code?"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The legal foundations of European copyright law / Theodore Georgopoulos -- The European legislator's strategy in the field of copyright harmonization / Frank Gotzen -- The plurality of legal systems in copyright law : an obstacle to a European codification? / Philippe Jougleux -- CJEU policy and practice in the field of European copyright law / Dionysia Kallinikou -- The foundations of the concept of work in European copyright law / Tatiana-Eleni Synodinou -- The acquis communautaire in the area of copyright and related rights : economic rights / Agnés Lucas Schloetter -- Defining the scope of protection of copyright in the EU : the need to reconsider the acquis regarding limitations and exceptions / Christophe Geiger and Franciska Schönherr -- Duration of copyright and related rights / Heiki Pisuke -- Enforcement of IPRs / Pilar Cámara Águila -- Authorship and ownership : authors, entrepreneurs and rights / Antoon Quaedvlieg -- Moral rights / Ioannis Kikkis -- Copyright contracts / Silke von Lewinski -- An essential brick in the building of European copyright : regulation of copyright transactions / Jacques de Werra -- The legal struggle in the EU against online piracy / Ioannis Iglezakis -- Interoperability and European copyright law codification / Carine Bernault -- The perspective of the introduction of a European fair use clause / Paul L.C. Torremans -- The Wittem Group's European copyright code / P. Bernt Hugenholtz -- Reflections on a European copyright codification / Reto Hilty -- European copyright codification / André Lucas.