Author: Robert Spoo Abstract: The chapter explores the founding rules of America’s protectionist copyright law, which openly encouraged the unauthorized reprinting of new foreign works, generated frenzied competition for...
Read MoreAuthor: Shruti Rana Abstract: Nations and businesses around the globe have been battling over copyright protection laws, with industrialized nations pressuring developing nations to adopt “Western-style” copyright regimes. These...
Read MoreAuthor: Lucas Osborn Abstract: Market economies are based on free competition, which can include copying. Yet intellectual property protection in the United States prohibits copying in certain circumstances to incentivize...
Read MoreAuthor: Antoni Terra Abstract: Digital piracy is a worldwide concern. Both very high and very low rates of intellectual property infringement threaten innovation, thus implying that some level of effective copyright regulation...
Read MoreAuthors: Matthew Sag and Jake Haskell Abstract: In this Article, we offer both a legal and a pragmatic framework for defending against copyright trolls. Lawsuits alleging online copyright infringement by John Doe defendants have...
Read MoreAuthors: Amy Kapczynski, Bhaven N. Sampat and Ken Shadlen Abstract: The upward-ratcheting of patent protection through trade agreements has generated significant concerns about potential effects on prices of drugs and access to...
Read MoreAuthor: Victor B. Nzomo Abstract: In 2014, the Supreme Court of Kenya had to determine whether the broadcast rights in free-to-air (FTA) programme-carrying signals were infringed by allowing the re-broadcasting of these signals...
Read MoreCarlos Correa South Centre, February 2017 Research Paper #74 IP provisions in FTAs may have implications on a wide range of public policy areas. A vast academic literature has addressed the “flexibilities” available under the...
Read MoreAuthor: Dev Saif Gangjee Abstract: Copyright law is an outlier. Unlike patent, trade mark or (with some qualifications) design protection, the recognition and enforcement of proprietary interests is automatic, arising upon...
Read MoreAuthor: Giancarlo F. Frosio Abstract: Since the enactment of the first safe harbours and liability exemptions for online intermediaries, market conditions have radically changed. Originally, intermediary liability exemptions...
Read MoreAuthor: Krzysztof Garstka Abstract: Following the publication of the Digital Single Market agenda, it became clear that establishing the place of online intermediaries in the regulatory framework for combating illicit content on...
Read MoreThanks to Peter Yu for sending a link to the current issue of the WIPO Journal, which is dedicated to the theme of IP and development. Many of the articles look of interest to readers of the infojustice blog. The contents are:...
Read MoreAuthors: Ian Appel, Joan Farre-Mensa, Elena Simintzi Abstract: We analyze how frivolous patent-infringement claims made by “patent trolls” affect small firms’ ability to create jobs, raise capital, and survive. Our...
Read MoreAuthors: Belinda Townsend, Deborah Gleeson, and Ruth Lopert Abstract: The inclusion of elevated standards of intellectual property protection in the recently negotiated Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement has raised...
Read MoreAuthor: Stephanie Holmes Didwania Abstract: This paper uses data from an online database of music sampling to estimate the effect of copyright protection on the cumulative use of music. Using a unique panel dataset that links...
Read MoreCEIPI/ICTSD Publications Series, Issue 3 The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is very pleased to announce the publication of the third issue in the CEIPI/ICTSD series on Global Perspectives and...
Read MoreAuthors: Hazel Moir, Brigitte Tenni, Deborah Gleeson & Ruth Lopert Abstract: In the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement negotiations, the USA successfully pursued intellectual property (IP) provisions that will affect...
Read MoreStefan Wiktor, Françoise Renaud and Peter Beyer World Health Organization | October 2016 Excerpt from Executive Summary: This is the first-ever global report on treatment access to hepatitis C medicines. The report provides the...
Read MoreAuthor: Rebecca Giblin Abstract: Proposed copyright reforms are typically situated as being pro-user/anti-author (or vice versa). When it comes to making normative judgments about how far copyright rights ought to extend...
Read MoreAuthors: Joel Lexchin and Deborah Gleeson Abstract: The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is a large regional trade agreement involving twelve countries. It was signed in principle in February 2016 but has not yet been...
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