This Research Paper analyses the Draft Revised Basic Proposal for a WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting and Cablecasting Organizations in light of global trends towards media convergence and concentration in the digital environment. Among others, the Paper considers:The extent to which...

One of the current complex problems in copyright law relates to the manner and the extent to which the law should accommodate the new technologies of satellite and cable. A strong advocacy of copyright interests can impede the development of the new technologies, thereby depriving mankind of...

Die heute weit verbreitete Nutzung digitaler Medien und ihre Möglichkeiten der Verbreitung und Vervielfältigung rücken geistige Eigentumsrechte in das Zentrum der öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit und machen sie zu einem permanenten Streitgegenstand – national, europaweit und international. Wie...

We study the incentives that governments have to protect intellectual property in a trading world economy. We consider a world economy with ongoing innovation in two countries that differ in market size and in their capacities for innovation. We associate the strength of IPR protection with the...

With all of the recent domestic copyright activity relating to libraries — important fair use cases such as the Authors Guild's litigation against HathiTrust and the review of copyright law by the US House of Representatives, the US Patent and Trademark Office, and the Copyright Office — it...

Intellectual property treaties have two main types of provisions: national treatment of foreign inventors, and harmonization of protections. I address the positive question of when countries would want to treat foreign inventors the same as domestic inventors, and how their incentive to do so...