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A digitalização de obras de arte e sua posterior disponibilização na rede suscitam reflexões pertinentes no cenário da sociedade informacional. Por um lado, amplia-se o acesso aos acervos, contribuindo para a realização dos direitos culturais e para o desenvolvimento sociocultural sustentável pelo aproveitamento dos recursos tecnológicos; por outro, emergem questões controversas sobre a legitimidade da prática, em vista das condições de proteção autoral das obras e da insegurança técnica e jurídica experienciada pelas instituições de memória e cultura, em especial os museus. A partir das relações entre direito, arte e tecnologia e sob uma ótica orientada pelo interes...
O conflito perpassa a comunidade Porto do Capim, na cidade de João Pessoa, PB, Brasil, ao ocupar uma área por mais de 70 anos e ter que ser realocada para a construção de uma praça de eventos com a justificativa da prefeitura de revitalizar a área das margens do rio Sanhauá, que está invadida. Mas essa não é uma história única, é de todas as comunidades tradicionais. As comunidades tradicionais buscam o reconhecimento como comunidade tradicional para ter o direito de escolher onde viver, de acordo com o que preceitua a Convenção 169 da OIT. Este livro analisa as dimensões jurídico-institucional socioambiental do conflito. Os resultados encontrados mostram que os mapas oficia...
This book identifies and explains the different national approaches to data protection – the legal regulation of the collection, storage, transmission and use of information concerning identified or identifiable individuals – and determines the extent to which they could be harmonised in the foreseeable future. In recent years, data protection has become a major concern in many countries, as well as at supranational and international levels. In fact, the emergence of computing technologies that allow lower-cost processing of increasing amounts of information, associated with the advent and exponential use of the Internet and other communication networks and the widespread liberalization ...
Google’s has proved to be one of the most successful business models in today’s knowledge economy. Its services and applications have become part of our day-to-day life. However, Google has repeatedly been accused of acting outside the law in the development of services such as Adwords, Googlebooks or YouTube. One of the main purposes of this book is to assess whether those accusations are well-founded. But more important than that, this book provides a deeper reflection: are current legal systems adapted to business models such as that of Google or are they conceived for an industrial economy? Do the various lawsuits involving Google show an evolution of the existing legal framework tha...
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"This book is a result of an international and interdisciplinary research project known as the African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) project"--Acknowledgments.
Designed for university courses on copyright, this manual is a major contribution to the study of this legal discipline. Topics covered include the subject matter and content of copyright; owners of copyright; duration of protection; transfer; neighbouring rights; collective administration of copyright; bodies set up to defend copyright; international law.
Long confined to the study of nationality, citizenship was not always considered a major concern of social scientists. In recent decades, however, the concept of citizenship has generated significant interest and intellectual debate in a variety of academic contexts. Law and Citizenship provides a framework for analyzing citizenship by paying attention to the borders and boundaries of citizenship regimes. These borders and boundaries are shifting because of immigration and refugee flows, changing movement of persons within economic communities and areas of free trade, and the rise of nationalist movements within multinational states. All of these shifts raise fundamental issues: How are trad...