Routledge Research in Intellectual Property
Legal Protection of Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge from a Social Network Perspective
1st Edition
By Elnur Karimov
December 15, 2025
This book explores the urgent and evolving legal challenges surrounding the use of genetic resources and traditional knowledge (TK), particularly those held by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. International frameworks like the Nagoya Protocol and the 2024 WIPO Treaty aim to regulate ...
Decolonising Intellectual Property Law: An Afrocentric Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Jade Kouletakis, Nkem Itanyi
September 30, 2025
This book advocates for an Afrocentric approach to intellectual property (IP) law, using lessons from Nigeria’s past to encourage reform for the future of Africa’s legal IP landscape. Highlighting the Eurocentric influence on the history of intellectual property law in Africa, the book ...
Internet Memes and Copyright Law: Diving into the Meme Pool
1st Edition
By Brian Chun Lok Leung
September 30, 2025
This book explores the intricate relationship between copyright law and internet meme culture, challenging an assumption that copyright is a barrier to digital creativity. Using the lens of internet memes to analyse copyright law in the context of participatory remix culture, the book confronts a ...
Copyright Law in Photographic Works: Authorship, Originality, and Protection
1st Edition
By Faisal Alamri
July 25, 2025
This book presents an original theory of copyright authorship tailored for photographic works, grounded in the concepts of categorical intention, channelled selection, and causation. By addressing the unique dual nature of photography, where mechanical processes intersect with creative choices, it ...
Innovation and Development of Knowledge Societies: Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge-Based Socioeconomic Growth
1st Edition
Edited
By Nadia Naim, Alhanoof AlDebasi, David Price
February 27, 2025
This book examines the role that intellectual property plays in fostering innovation within knowledge societies, with a particular focus on the role of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence tools. Creativity and the generation of new knowledge across the broad spectrum of ...
The Subject of Copyright: Perspectives from Law, Aesthetics and Cognitive Science
1st Edition
By Ewa Laskowska-Litak
January 30, 2025
Exploring the concept of copyright subject matter through the lenses of law, aesthetics, and cognitive science, this book describes the historical evolution of a work into an artefact that qualifies as copyrightable subject matter. Discussing the originality requirement towards an artefactual ...
Intellectual Property Law in Africa: Harmonising Administration and Policy
2nd Edition
By Caroline B. Ncube
December 18, 2024
Examining the harmonisation of Intellectual Property policy, law and administration in Africa, this book evaluates the effectiveness of efforts to establish continental Intellectual Property institutions and frameworks. It also considers sub-regional initiatives led by the regional economic ...
Collective Management of Music Copyright: A Comparative Analysis of China, the United States and Australia
1st Edition
By Qinqing Xu
November 29, 2024
Two of the objectives of the Chinese Copyright Law are to protect the copyright of authors to their literary and artistic works and encourage the creation and dissemination of works. In practice, however, in spite of the existence of the Music Copyright Society of China ('MCSC') that was ...
Intellectual Property and Emerging Technologies: Generated Global IP Issues and Challenges
1st Edition
By Tshimanga Kongolo
November 15, 2024
This book evaluates issues and challenges emerging from the interaction between intellectual property (IP) and new technologies, namely artificial intelligence (AI), big data, social media, internet of things (IoT), metaverse, blockchain, video gaming, and voice cloning. New technologies have not ...
Digitization, Copyright and the Law: Copyleft and the Future of Intellectual Property
1st Edition
By Ettore M. Lombardi
September 13, 2024
This book discusses copyleft and its impact on the traditional way to conceive of property. It is specifically focused on the European and international juridical framework. Analysing the impact of digitalization on copyright and the potential effect of copyleft in the European market and within a ...
Intellectual Property and Development: Geographical Indications in Practice
1st Edition
By Barbara Pick
August 26, 2024
The legal protection of geographical indications (GIs) is characterised by a variety of approaches which translates the many objectives attached to them. These range from protection of the consumers and producers’ interests against unfair competition practices, to territorial development, to ...
Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law in India
1st Edition
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By Rajni Malhotra Dhingra, Nisha Dhanraj Dewani
August 12, 2024
This book explores the relationship between intellectual property law and competition law, proposing a harmonious equilibrium in the dynamic landscape of evolving technology. It explores how intellectual property rights (IPR) can be effectively balanced with competition law considerations, offering...