This Chapter discusses intellectual property and extra-contractual liability by highlighting general comparative … might influence the different legal regimes. The Chapter focuses on emerging issues of extra-contractual liability for … regional level in secondary and extra-contractual liability doctrines when applied to IP. Finally, this Chapter describes the …

Over the past decade, numerous scholars and commentators have asserted that the indirect copyright liability standards … copyright liability and technological innovation and some suggestive empirical results. The conceptual analysis demonstrates … that the question of whether indirect copyright liability chills technological innovation inherently requires consideration …

ISPs’ indirect copyright liability permits regulation where traditional legislation fails to meet requirements of … infringement at low cost. However, though it has been hailed as a forceful tool for governing ISPs’ liability for fierce copyright … infringement committed by their users over the Internet in most of the jurisdictions, the strength of this liability regime is …

National laws relating to secondary liability in copyright have been largely ineffective in stalling copyright …