Copyright Exhaustion (2^nd Ed., New edition) Law and Policy in the United States and the European Union Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law Series

In the Second Edition of Copyright Exhaustion, copyright scholar Péter Mezei offers an expanded examination of copyright exhaustion, including its historical development, theoretical framework, practical applications, and policy considerations. He includes updated case law and statutory developments for the first-sale doctrine in the United States and in the European Union, covering both analogue and digital applications with an eye toward scrutinizing the common rejection of exhaustion in the resale of digital subject matter including computer programs, sound recordings, audiovisual works, and e-books. He advocates for a digital first-sale doctrine that would offer legal consistency to copyright law and a technologically feasible framework for content producers and consumers.

Introduction; 1. The theory of exhaustion; 2. The doctrine of exhaustion in the copyright law of the European Union; 3. The first sale doctrine in the copyright law of the United States; 4. Digital exhaustion in the European Union and the United States; Conclusion.

Péter Mezei is an associate professor at the University of Szeged, an adjunct professor (dosentti) at the University of Turku, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Jean Moulin Lyon III. Both in lecturing and in research, he has specialized in comparative digital copyright law. He contributed to several international research studies commissioned by the European Commission. He has been selected to write national reports to the 2010, 2014, and 2022 International Comparative Law Congress. He is a member of the European Copyright Society and the Hungarian Copyright Expert Board.