The range and effects of art. 7 and 8 of Trips are not clear to this moment. According to the Appellate Body of WTO, in the Canada Generics case, those Articles still await appropriate interpretation.This author's contention is that the ensemble of such provisions may be held to function on a...

Market economies historically led the stimulus to creation to a model where the author has an exclusive right to exploit economically its work. Such exclusiveness is however "artificial", as long as the information, once effected to the public, naturally spreads out without inherent constraints,...

This study intends to cover a specific portion of the ACTA draft agreement, specifically those provisions pertaining to the border measures and other enforcement not related to the Internet environment. Its first segment provides a very brief identification of our object of analysis. The...