Book review: Patrick Masiyakurima, Copyright Protection of Unpublished Works in the Common Law World (Hart Publishing, Oxford 2020) 240 pp.
Poorna Mysoor · Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property · 2021
In this timely and trenchant monograph, Dr Patrick Masiyakurima deals with an often neglected but important issue – the protection of unpublished works. He provides a systematic analysis of the certain crucial differences in the way published and unpublished works are treated in the contemporary copyright law in the common law world, most notably in the UK and the US. Starting with the way published and unpublished works qualify for protection, he maps the difference in the extent of protection, going on to reveal the disparity in the defences available against the infringement of published as opposed to unpublished works,