Book review: ‘Copyright and Information Privacy: Conflicting Rights in Balance’

In ‘Copyright and Information Privacy: Conflicting Rights in Balance’, Federica Giovanella takes us through the regulation of file-sharing in the United States, Canada and Italy to examine its impact on the privacy rights of internet users. More specifically, Giovanella looks at the jurisprudence framing requests filed by right holders against internet service providers (ISPs) for the disclosure of the identity of internet users for the purpose of enforcement. The book will be useful to both students and academics of IP, as it pulls together different strands in the relevant scholarship discussed, namely: (1)the legal doctrines underpinning the exercise of the balancing of rights in each of the three legal systems examined, together with how these doctrines have developed within the legal scholarship (Chapter 1) ; (2) the evolution of the jurisprudence on file-sharing in each of the countries (Chapter 2); and (3) the evolution of privacy protection on the…

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