Intellectual Property Law Books

New and Published Books

1. Intellectual Property Rights in Contemporary Capitalism

   Edited by Birgitte Andersen

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This book is a timely contribution to an important debate on the increased, changed or new scope of Intellectual Property Rights in the light of Contemporary Capitalism. How the expanded or pushed Intellectual Property Rights domain encourages an individual and corporate self-interest over...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Readings in Law and Popular Culture

   Edited by Steven Greenfield, Guy Osborn

   Series: Routledge Studies in Law, Society and Popular Culture

   Readings in Law and Popular Culture is the first book to bring together high quality research, with an emphasis on context, from key researchers working at the cutting-edge of both law and cultural disciplines. Fascinating and varied, the volume crosses many boundaries, dealing with areas as...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. 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
4. The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property

   Copyright Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture

   By Jessica Reyman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   In recent years we have witnessed a rising tension between the open architecture of the Internet and legal restrictions for online activities. The impact of digital recording technologies and distributed file sharing systems has forever changed the expectations of everyday users with regard to...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. Competing Sovereignties

   By Richard Joyce

   Competing Sovereignties provides a critique of the concept of sovereignty in modernity in light of claims to determine the content of law at the international, national and local levels. In an argument that is illustrated through an analysis of debates over the control of intellectual property law...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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