Abstracto

How to balance copyright and social interests in the new information age

Yani Zhang

This essay is prepared to examine and find out the proper answers to these questions. To set the stage, it is necessary to: firstly assess the existing forms of limits and exceptions to copyright; secondly explore the characteristics of new information age; finally examine the problems brought by two new important digital products--electronic contracts and technical measures--to the copyright system and find out the legislative solution to these two problems