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1. Copyright Industries and the Impact of Creative Destruction

   Copyright Expansion and the Publishing Industry

   By Jiabo Liu

   Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property

   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...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Law and Economics of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age

   The Limits of Analysis

   By Niva Elkin-Koren, Eli Salzberger

   Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property

   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...

   Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. A Politics of Patent Law

   Crafting the Participatory Patent Bargain

   By Kali Murray

   Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property

   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...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
4. Intellectual Property, Community Rights and Human Rights

   The Biological and Genetic Resources of Developing Countries

   By Marcelin Tonye Mahop

   Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property

   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,...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. Private Copying

   By Stavroula Karapapa

   Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property

   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...

   Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Development of Intellectual Property Regimes in the Arabian Gulf States

   Infidels at the Gates

   By David Price

   Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property

   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...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
7. Intellectual Property Overlaps

   Theory, Strategies, and Solutions

   By Robert Tomkowicz

   Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property

   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...

   Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge
8. Intellectual Property in Global Governance

   A Development Question

   By Chidi Oguamanam

   Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property

   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...

   Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
9. Re-thinking Intellectual Property

   The Political Economy of Copyright Protection in the Digital Era

   By YiJun Tian

   Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property

   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...

   Published December 3rd 2009 by Routledge-Cavendish