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The Other Side of Copyright: Limitations and Expectations

From: In Defence of Copyright

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In this chapter, Stephens examines the limits of copyright protection, discussing the thresholds a work must meet—originality, the idea-expression distinction, merger, and fixation.

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Hugh Stephens

Best known for his blog Insights on International Copyright Issues (awarded one of the top copyright blogs in the world and consistently ranked by Feedspot as a Top 50 copyright blog) Hugh Stephens has written articles for the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, The Globe and Mail, the National Post, The Conversation, The Diplomat, and more. He served for several years as Vice Chair of the Quality Brands Protection Committee, a coalition of more than 180 multinational companies engaged in strengthening IPR protection in China. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Executive Fellow at the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, and an associate faculty member in the School of Business at Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC.