Expansions in Scope and Operation
- Move from common law and ad-hoc grants of monopoly to copyright statutes.
- Expansions in subject matter (largely related to technology).
- Expansions on duration.
- Creation of new exclusive rights (such as performers' and other neighbouring rights).
- Creation of collecting societies.
- Criminalisation of copyright infringement.
- Creation of anti-circumvention laws.
- Courts' application of secondary liability doctrines to cover file sharing networks
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