Budzinski, Oliver; Monostori, Katalin - Institut für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Fakultät für … - 2012
In the context of the WTO, intellectual property rights (IPR) are codified in the TRIPS-agreement. While covering all … the different types of IPR, landmark cases of the still young history of TRIPS have dealt with commercial copyrights. This … paper summarizes the basic economics of the IPR branch commercial copyrights, reviews the TRIPS history and analyses two …