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become central to the debate over the expansion of intellectual property rights in the World Trade Organization. The author ….Proponents of GIs also raise more diffuse concerns about authenticity, heritage and locality in a rapidly globalizing world. After … of protection afforded by the World Trade Organization - as well as current demands of the European Union for even …
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This chapter seeks to illustrate certain trends in international intellectual property by highlighting and considering some of the more popular, important and potentially far-reaching TRIPS-Plus provisions that have recently been negotiated in bilateral and regional trade agreements. Our...
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expressive freedom. The restriction of information both to and from individuals raises issues of human rights. The relationship … between copyright and freedom of expression and information and how this is affected by technical barriers is discussed herein …
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The substantive boundaries of intellectual property rights are shifting rapidly (if not disintegrating) in the face of the demands of the digital environment, the increasing emphasis on “flexibilities” in multilateral treaty obligations to support sustainable development and access to...
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In the platform age, copyright-protected contents are primarily disseminated over the internet. This model poses various challenges to the copyright regime that was mainly designed in and for the analog age. One of these challenges is related to the fair balance between the interests of...
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an innovation architecture that mixes freedom (e.g. access, public domain) and control (e.g. incentive & reward … or elsewhere in the world should adhere to EU safety and security benchmarks, including not limited to the high technical …
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This essay argues that, although the International Exhaustion regime provides the greatest scope for market competition among all the regimes of exhaustion of intellectual property rights, unrestricted parallel trade may prove to be harmful in the long run. The Exhaustion principle may promote...
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-security clause to be carefully negotiated. The new cyber-security regimes of world powers like China seem to capture this problem …
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This chapter explores IP protectability of what may be broadly termed “folk music,” though, that is a term fraught with ambiguity, from an intellectual property social justice (IP-SJ) framework. Our IP-SJ approach helps illuminate how IP law and administration affect opportunities for...
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One of the foundational assumptions of patent law is that imbuing inventions with intellectual property rights (IPR) is necessary to bring forth innovation. We test this foundational assumption by examining the impact of IPR on commercialization of university research. Using the full set of US...
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