Book contents
- Across Intellectual Property
- Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
- Frontispiece
- Across Intellectual Property
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Across Regimes
- Part II Across Jurisdictions
- Part III Across Disciplines
- 13 The Challenges of Intellectual Property Legal History Research
- 14 Connecting Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Law School Syllabus
- 15 Copyright and Privacy
- 16 Resisting Labels
- 17 Trade Marks and Cultural Identity
- 18 Intellectual Property Law and Empirical Research
- Part IV Across Professions
- Laudatio
- Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
15 - Copyright and Privacy
Pre-trial Discovery of User Identities
from Part III - Across Disciplines
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 March 2020
- Across Intellectual Property
- Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
- Frontispiece
- Across Intellectual Property
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Across Regimes
- Part II Across Jurisdictions
- Part III Across Disciplines
- 13 The Challenges of Intellectual Property Legal History Research
- 14 Connecting Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Law School Syllabus
- 15 Copyright and Privacy
- 16 Resisting Labels
- 17 Trade Marks and Cultural Identity
- 18 Intellectual Property Law and Empirical Research
- Part IV Across Professions
- Laudatio
- Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
Summary
The relationship between copyright and privacy is complex: copyright and privacy may be mutually reinforcing or may conflict. This chapter explores the relationship between copyright and privacy in the context of pre-trial discovery of identities of internet users allegedly committing copyright infringements by use of peer-to-peer (P2P), principally BitTorrent, networks. In particular, the chapter examines the extent to which courts granting identity disclosure from ISPs satisfactorily address conflicts between copyright and privacy. The chapter argues that judicial reasoning in this context may be improved by means of structured rights balancing, which is to be preferred to conventional multi-factor common law reasoning.
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- Across Intellectual PropertyEssays in Honour of Sam Ricketson, pp. 201 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020