Abstract
This contribution analyses and discusses the use of collective management organizations (CMOs) in copyright. More concretely, it examines the use and effects of extended collective licenses (ECL). This model of rights management has been developed in the Nordic countries and has for some time been hailed as a promising tool to solve some of copyright’s problems relating to mass uses of works. It is pointed out how ECL builds on users generated rights managements structures (CMOs) but owes its specific effectiveness to a legislator’s willingness to provide a third-party effect of the collective agreements entered into by representative CMOs. In the final part some of the challenges to ECLs arising from internationalisation and individualisation are identified and discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | User Generated Law : Re-Constructing Intellectual Property Law in a Knowledge Society |
| Editors | Thomas Riis |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Place of Publication | Northampton, MA |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Publication date | 29 Jul 2016 |
| Pages | 55-76 |
| Chapter | 3 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978178347955 9 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978178347956 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 29 Jul 2016 |