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Copyright law: world copyright law
Book reviews This is the second edition of this major work that aims to provide a comprehensive guide to the whole field of national, international and regional copyright law. It returns the basic structure of the first edition by retaining in Section 1 a commentary on the law – its background and basic principles. Part 2 focuses on national, international and regional protection and examines the range of international treaties and European Commission regulations. Part 3 looks at current issues and future prospects for the development of global copyright law. Section 2 of the work contains
comparative summaries of international and regional standards of protection and Section 3 a glossary of legal and technical terms. Finally, Section 4 contains reference materials of the relevant international texts. It also contains a reference list of national laws and supplementary material, historic documents and miscellaneous reference materials.
The aim of this text, which is in its first edition, is to provide comprehensive coverage of telecommunications law in the UK. It is prefaced by the huge deregulation that has taken place in the telecommunications industry over the past 20 years and the convergence of the technologies of telecommunications information technology and broadcasting, which have blurred the edges of what was, prior to that, a clear demarcation of those fields. The authors note in their introduction that the book has been “an unusually fraught task”. This was because of the complications of the timing of writing the book and the major reforms of 2003 that culminated in the passage of the Communications Act of that year. This legislation creates a major reorganization of the
telecoms field and this, of course, is covered throughout the book. There are ten chapters altogether – the development of communications law; scope of the legislation; access and interconnection; universal service; numbers, names and numbers; data protection and the communications sector; the Communications Code; competition and telecoms; telecoms on the international stage; and the technology of telecommunications. The book will be of major interest to students studying the range of courses in the telecoms law field as well as those involved in the provision or use of telecommunications services and, of course, those engaged in legal advice on such matters.
Publication of the second edition of telecommunications law came just prior to the far reaching changes in the regulatory environment in the UK brought about by the Communications Bill at that time before Parliament. This new edition focuses on the role of the European Commission and how this has affected UK law. In particular it examines the manner in which it dictates regulatory policy for communications, but omits much of the local regulation of specific types of communications systems such as cable television. It provides continued detailed analysis of the BT licence which “has been the cornerstone of UK telecommunications regulations since 1984 … although in less than a year it is due to be replaced by a more standardised ‘European’ Version”. The
work in Volume I is divided into eight chapters dealing with the evolution of telecommunications; principles of competition law; the European telecoms framework; international and UK regulatory authorities; the UK telecoms framework; the BT licence; content and privacy communications; broadcasting and a glossary of non technical and technical terms. Volume II contains a chronology of liberalisation; Commission guidelines on market analysis and assessment of significant market powers; European legislation; UK legislation; the Communications Bill; and a template for a standard fixed PTO licence.
COPYRIGHT LAW
World Copyright Law J.A.L. Sterling, 2003, hard-cover, Sweet & Maxwell, 1357 pp., £235, 332, ISBN 0 421 79070 9.
Available from: Sweet & Maxwell, International Customer Service. Tel: +44 1264 342906, UK 020 7449 1111, by mail: Sweet & Maxwell Group, Freepost, Lon 12091, London NW3 4YS, Internet: www.sweet&maxwell.uk TELECOMMUNICATIONS LAW
Telecommunications Law Professor E Lloyd and Professor David Mellor, 2003, soft-cover, LexisNexis Butterworths, 320pp., £26.95, ISBN 0 406 94799 6.
Available from: LexisNexis UK, 2 Addiscombe Road, Croydon, CR9 5AF, Tel: 020 8662 2000.
TELECOMS LAW
Telecommunications Law, Volumes I and II, second edition David Gillies and Roger J.W. Marshal, 2003, hard-cover, Butterworth, LexisNexis, 518pp., £225, ISBN Vol. I – 0 406 96873 X; Vol. II 0 406 96874 8.
Available from: LexisNexis UK, 2 Addiscombe Road, Croydon, CR9 5AF, Tel: 020 8662 2000.
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comparative summaries of international and regional standards of protection and Section 3 a glossary of legal and technical terms. Finally, Section 4 contains reference materials of the relevant international texts. It also contains a reference list of national laws and supplementary material, historic documents and miscellaneous reference materials.
The aim of this text, which is in its first edition, is to provide comprehensive coverage of telecommunications law in the UK. It is prefaced by the huge deregulation that has taken place in the telecommunications industry over the past 20 years and the convergence of the technologies of telecommunications information technology and broadcasting, which have blurred the edges of what was, prior to that, a clear demarcation of those fields. The authors note in their introduction that the book has been “an unusually fraught task”. This was because of the complications of the timing of writing the book and the major reforms of 2003 that culminated in the passage of the Communications Act of that year. This legislation creates a major reorganization of the
telecoms field and this, of course, is covered throughout the book. There are ten chapters altogether – the development of communications law; scope of the legislation; access and interconnection; universal service; numbers, names and numbers; data protection and the communications sector; the Communications Code; competition and telecoms; telecoms on the international stage; and the technology of telecommunications. The book will be of major interest to students studying the range of courses in the telecoms law field as well as those involved in the provision or use of telecommunications services and, of course, those engaged in legal advice on such matters.
Publication of the second edition of telecommunications law came just prior to the far reaching changes in the regulatory environment in the UK brought about by the Communications Bill at that time before Parliament. This new edition focuses on the role of the European Commission and how this has affected UK law. In particular it examines the manner in which it dictates regulatory policy for communications, but omits much of the local regulation of specific types of communications systems such as cable television. It provides continued detailed analysis of the BT licence which “has been the cornerstone of UK telecommunications regulations since 1984 … although in less than a year it is due to be replaced by a more standardised ‘European’ Version”. The
work in Volume I is divided into eight chapters dealing with the evolution of telecommunications; principles of competition law; the European telecoms framework; international and UK regulatory authorities; the UK telecoms framework; the BT licence; content and privacy communications; broadcasting and a glossary of non technical and technical terms. Volume II contains a chronology of liberalisation; Commission guidelines on market analysis and assessment of significant market powers; European legislation; UK legislation; the Communications Bill; and a template for a standard fixed PTO licence.
COPYRIGHT LAW
World Copyright Law J.A.L. Sterling, 2003, hard-cover, Sweet & Maxwell, 1357 pp., £235, 332, ISBN 0 421 79070 9.
Available from: Sweet & Maxwell, International Customer Service. Tel: +44 1264 342906, UK 020 7449 1111, by mail: Sweet & Maxwell Group, Freepost, Lon 12091, London NW3 4YS, Internet: www.sweet&maxwell.uk TELECOMMUNICATIONS LAW
Telecommunications Law Professor E Lloyd and Professor David Mellor, 2003, soft-cover, LexisNexis Butterworths, 320pp., £26.95, ISBN 0 406 94799 6.
Available from: LexisNexis UK, 2 Addiscombe Road, Croydon, CR9 5AF, Tel: 020 8662 2000.
TELECOMS LAW
Telecommunications Law, Volumes I and II, second edition David Gillies and Roger J.W. Marshal, 2003, hard-cover, Butterworth, LexisNexis, 518pp., £225, ISBN Vol. I – 0 406 96873 X; Vol. II 0 406 96874 8.
Available from: LexisNexis UK, 2 Addiscombe Road, Croydon, CR9 5AF, Tel: 020 8662 2000.
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