E. Current Rights Management Methods
Logistically, it can be difficult for copyright owners to enforce their individual rights because the costs of doing so are often greater than any potential gain. For every children’s movie that generates a multibillion-dollar product line, there are thousands of creators whose works are being used in small contexts that yield only a few cents per use. These small rights, or rights for which the cost of administration is large relative to their value,28 are prevalent in many industries and fields, and make administering, managing, and enforcing intellectual property rights a complicated task that traditionally has been undertaken in one of two ways: by direct or by collective administration.
A. Intellectual Property Rights in the United States
B. A Brief History of Copyright
C. The Nature of Rights in Copyright
D. The Complexity of Rights in an Electronic Environment
F. The Emergence and Perseverance of Rights Management