Routledge Research in Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge in the Global Economy: Translating Geographical Indications for Development
1st Edition
By Teshager W. Dagne
July 27, 2016
Arising from recent developments at the international level, many developing countries, indigenous peoples and local communities are considering using geographical indications (GIs) to protect traditional knowledge, and to promote trade and overall economic development. Despite the considerable ...
Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Property Protection: Cultural Signifiers in the Caribbean and the Americas
1st Edition
By Sharon Le Gall
March 03, 2016
International developments since the mid-1990s have signalled an awareness of the importance and validity of traditional knowledge and cultural property. The adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the establishment of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property ...
Copyright Industries and the Impact of Creative Destruction: Copyright Expansion and the Publishing Industry
1st Edition
By Jiabo Liu
October 12, 2015
This book examines the relationship between the legal extension of copyright duration as an enduring means of copyright protection and the growth of the UK book publishing industry as a typical creative industry reliant on copyright. The book draws on Schumpeter’s theory of creative destruction to ...
The Law and Economics of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age: The Limits of Analysis
1st Edition
By Niva Elkin-Koren, Eli Salzberger
October 12, 2015
This book explores the economic analysis of intellectual property law, with a special emphasis on the Law and Economics of informational goods in light of the past decade’s technological revolution. In recent years there has been massive growth in the Law and Economics literature focusing on ...
Health Technologies and International Intellectual Property Law: A Precautionary Approach
1st Edition
By Phoebe Li
July 16, 2015
The global transmission of infectious diseases has fuelled the need for a more developed legal framework in international public health to provide prompt and specific guidance during a large-scale emergency. This book develops a means for States to take advantage of the flexibilities of compulsory ...
Private Copying
1st Edition
By Stavroula Karapapa
March 13, 2014
This book offers an original analysis of private copying and determines its actual scope as an area of end-user freedom. The basis of this examination is Article 5(2)(b) of the Copyright Directive. Despite the fact that copying for private and non-commercial use is permitted by virtue of this ...
A Politics of Patent Law: Crafting the Participatory Patent Bargain
1st Edition
By Kali Murray
February 25, 2014
There has been much written on the impact of international treaties like the Trade Related Aspects on Intellectual Property (TRIPS), which laments the failure of patent systems to respond to the interests of a diverse set of non-profit, public interest, and non-corporate entities. This book ...
Intellectual Property Overlaps: Theory, Strategies, and Solutions
1st Edition
By Robert Tomkowicz
April 12, 2013
Intellectual property rights and their overlaps are considered in light of rights purposes, relying on the concept of a balance of rights as the measuring rod for assessment of the consequences resulting from the exercise of overlapping rights. Identifying the complex interface between different ...
Intellectual Property in Global Governance: A Development Question
1st Edition
By Chidi Oguamanam
April 11, 2013
Intellectual Property in Global Governance critically examines the evolution of international intellectual property law-making from the build up to the TRIPS Agreement, through the TRIPS and post-TRIPS era. The book focuses on a number of thematic intellectual property issue linkages, exploring the...
Intellectual Property, Community Rights and Human Rights: The Biological and Genetic Resources of Developing Countries
1st Edition
By Marcelin Tonye Mahop
May 28, 2012
This book considers the issue of biodiversity in developing countries in relation to intellectual-property rights, community rights and human rights. Drawing together a number of case studies of developing countries rich in biological and genetic resources including India, South Africa and Brazil, ...
The Development of Intellectual Property Regimes in the Arabian Gulf States: Infidels at the Gates
1st Edition
By David Price
April 20, 2012
This book examines the development of national legislative regimes for the protection of intellectual property rights in the Arabian Gulf states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. David Price analyses IP rights in these states in the context of WTO ...
Re-thinking Intellectual Property: The Political Economy of Copyright Protection in the Digital Era
1st Edition
By YiJun Tian
December 04, 2009
Copyright laws, along with other Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), constitute the legal foundation for the "global knowledge-based economy" and copyright law now plays an increasingly important role in the creation of business fortunes, the access to and dissemination of knowledge, and human ...