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December 2017
The internet has transformed creative and innovative pursuits for economic gain or otherwise. Yet flow-on complications around intellectual property (IP) law and related regulation have not taken full advantage of the benefits offered by the internet: collective creativity, information sharing, modification and additions to information and copyright works.
Historically, human and economic development have shaped IP rights, and regulation around the internet and patented rights of authors to their creativity should be no different. The essays collected in Intellectual Property and the Internet address this digital space where human and economic goals both meet and collide in unprecedented ways.
CONTENTS
Is it copyright’s role to fill houses with books?
by Rebecca Giblin, Monash University
Conjectures on governance and wholesale copyright licensing
by Adriane Porcin, University of Manitoba
Uber copyright reform
by Daniel Gervais, Vanderbilt Law School
Towering wave or tempest in a teapot? Synthetic biology, access and benefit sharing, and economic development
by Margo A. Bagley, Emory Law School
The importance of the US Telecommunications Act for access to knowledge: a primer on the net neutrality debate for developing countries
by Ruth L. Okediji, Harvard Law School
Brand symbols, the consumer, and the internet
by Annette Kur, Max Planck Institute, Munich
The internet, Facebook, smartphones and intellectual property rights: A happy combination?
by Estelle Derclaye, Nottingham University
Intellectual property as a regulator of behaviour
by Susy Frankel, Victoria University of Wellington
Susy Frankel is professor of law, chair of intellectual property and international trade, and director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law at Victoria University of Wellington. She is the president of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) 2015–2017. Since 2008 she has been chair of the New Zealand Copyright Tribunal.
Daniel Gervais is a the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, director of the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program, and faculty co-director of the LLM program. He is editor-in chief of the Journal of World Intellectual Property and editor of tripsagreement.net. In 2012, he became the first professor of law in North America to be elected to the Academy of Europe. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and an associate reporter of its Restatement of the Law of Copyright project. He is president of ATRIP 2017–2019.
