The "International Instrument on Permitted Uses in Copyright Law" (the Instrument) is the result of a research project for a balanced reconciliation of interests in copyright law. The project was coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and resulted in a legal...

To clarify the notion of the public domain in relation to the trademark system, several definitions can be considered that have arisen from reflections on the meaning and function of the public domain. Legal status definitions, typically, require public domain material to be unencumbered by...

A monolith can be described as a geological feature “consisting of a single massive stone or rock, such as some mountains.” In architecture, it may refer to “a single large piece of rock placed as, or within, a monument or building.” A literary or artistic work may constitute a monolith...