Intellectual Property Law Books

New and Published Books

1. 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 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Extending the Protection of Geographical Indications

   Case Studies of Agricultural Products in Africa

   Edited by Michael Blakeney, Thierry Coulet, Getachew Mengistie, Marcelin Tonye Mahop

   The TRIPS Agreement (for trade-related intellectual property rights) provides for the general protection of geographical indications (GIs) of product origin, including for example the special protection of wines and spirits and for the creation of a multilateral register for wines. The African...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
3. The Current State of Domain Name Regulation

   Domain Names as Second Class Citizens in a Mark-Dominated World

   By Konstantinos Komaitis

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and E-Commerce Law

   In this book Konstantinos Komaitis identifies a tripartite problem – intellectual, institutional and ethical – inherent in the domain name regulation culture. Using the theory of property, Komaitis discusses domain names as sui generis ‘e-property’ rights and analyses the experience of the past ten...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
5. Intellectual Property

   Text and Essential Cases

   By Rocque Reynolds, Natalie Stoianoff, Angela Adrian, Alpana Roy

   Intellectual Property: Text and Essential Cases continues to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date legal analysis of the cases and legislation which comprise modern intellectual property law. This edition adds resale royalty rights for visual artists to its coverage of the major IP topics: copyright,...

   Published February 14th 2012 by Federation Press
6. Q&A Intellectual Property Law

   3rd Edition

   By Janice Denoncourt

   Series: Questions and Answers

   You’ve planned your revision and you know your subject inside out! But how do you apply what you have learned to get the best marks in the examination room? Routledge Q&As give you the ideal opportunity to practice and refine your exam technique, helping you to apply your knowledge most...

   Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge
7. Intellectual Property Lawcards 2012-2013

   8th Edition

   By Routledge

   Series: Lawcards

   Routledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format make them an ideal revision aid. Helping you to identify, understand and commit to memory the salient...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
8. Creativity and Cultural Policy

   Edited by Chris Bilton

   Creativity has become a popular buzzword in contemporary cultural policy, yet the term remains poorly understood. In this collection, cultural policy specialists together with experts on psychology, creative enterprise and arts education, consider how ‘creativity’ is defined in a variety of...

   Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview

   Volume 1: Illustrations and Philosophical Preliminaries

   By David Tyfield

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these frameworks...

   Published November 21st 2011 by Routledge
10. 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