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Basic Rules of Protection in the Copyright and Intellectual Property Law : The Nature of the Granted Rights in the Field of Intellectual Property

Speriusi-Vlad, Alin - 2014

Copyright generally refers to the right granted for the protection of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works … the protection of performers, producers, broadcasters etc. In some laws, however, the term copyright is used to cover both … categories of rights as sui generis rights. These are rights which may be regarded as different in nature from copyright and …

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Introduction to a New Theory in Intellectual Property Law : Legal Protection without a Property Right

Speriusi-Vlad, Alin - 2014

The main concern of this preliminary research is to establish the place of the intellectual property rights within the classical classification of rights used by theory of law, in rights in rem and rights in personam, or as they were called by Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, multital rights and paucital...

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Blurred Lines — Where Copyright Ends and Cultural Appropriation Begins — The Case of Robin Thicke versus Bridgeport Music, and the Estate of Marvin Gaye

Lester, Toni - 2015

This article covers the copyright theft lawsuit brought by the family of the great soul singer, Marvin Gaye, against … we define what is creative and innovative, the very things that US copyright law is supposed to protect. Courts in the US … tend to favor European-influenced melodies over harmonic progressions and African-American influenced rhythms in copyright …

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Reinventing Copyright and Patent

Bell, Abraham; Parchomovsky, Gideon - 2014

Intellectual property systems all over the world are modeled on the one-size-fits-all principle. However important or unimportant, inventions and original works of authorship receive the same scope of protection, for the same period, backed by the same variety of legal remedies. Metaphorically...

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Removing Property from Intellectual Property and (Intended?) Pernicious Impacts on Innovation and Competition

Kieff, F. Scott - 2013

Commentators have poured forth a loud and sustained outcry over the past few years that sees property rule treatment of intellectual property (IP) as a cause of excessive transaction costs, thickets, anticommons, hold-ups, hold-outs, and trolls, which unduly tax and retard innovation,...

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Fundamentals of Intellectual Property : Cases & Materials

Field, Thomas G. - 2014

This is approximately the 24th revision of a conventional 472 pp. casebook. Used twice annually since 1999, this edition will be used in 3-semester-hour courses in 2012-13. Noncommercial reproduction of this file is royalty free, but one of the comprehensive statutory supplement is recommended....

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The IEEE-SA Patent Policy Update Under the Lens of EU Competition Law

Zingales, Nicolo; Kanevskaia Whitaker, Olia - 2016

In 2015, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standardization Association made some controversial changes to its patent policy. The changes include a recommended method of calculation of FRAND royalty rates, and a request to members holding a standard essential patent...

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TRIPS and Climate Change in the International Economic Order

Machnicka, Agnieszka A. - 2016

This article analyses the relationship between the industrial property protection system, as introduced by the TRIPS Agreement, and international arrangements relating to climate change. It aims at providing a picture of how legal, structural and policy-related divergences and convergences...

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Against Intellectual Property Moral Rights on Economic Grounds

Speriusi-Vlad, Alin - 2014

Intellectual property moral rights must be carefully studied by the business community, which could easily and wrongly believe that the intellectual property business involves only intellectual property economic rights. This paper represent an introduction meant to reveal a contrasting legal and...

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Sovereignty Under Siege : Corporate Challenges to Domestic Intellectual Property Decisions

Ho, Cynthia M. - 2015

Countries face a new threat that strikes at their ability to balance protection of intellectual property rights against other priorities, such as public health. They may have to pay substantial compensation to companies that dislike domestic intellectual property laws. This threat is much more...

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