International Copyright Law and Policy

ISBN-13: 9780199207206 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 480 str.

Silke Von Lewinski

Opis

International Copyright Law and Policy deals comprehensively with the major treaties and conventions covering the law of international copyright and neighboring rights. It explains the complex legal, economic and political background to the treaties and their contents, and how they inter-relate. There is also practical commercial discussion of how copyright and neighboring rights are treated in international trade measures such as GATT, WTO, NAFTA, and bilateral and unilateral treaties, with a section devoted to how unilateral trade measures are applied by the USA in particular. There is also some discussion of how international copyright law and neighboring rights may develop in the future.

O autorze

Silke von Lewinski is head of the department specialising in international and European copyright law, at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Munich. Dr von Lewinski has acted as a consultant to the European Commission on several occasions, for example on the EC Rental Rights Directive (drafting the EC proposal and steering it through the legislative process), and at the WIPO Diplomatic Conference 1996, where she was a member of the delegation of the European Communities. At the WIPO Diplomatic Conference 2000 on Audiovisual Performances, she was a delegate for Germany. She has been the chief legal expert consulted by the governments of Eastern and Central European and former Soviet countries on their copyright legislation in the framework of the EC's TA programs PHARE and TACIS, and has worked on subsequent EC programs, including in Asia. She has written numerous publications, and given lectures worldwide, which have focussed on copyright law, primarily at international and European levels. Dr. von Lewinski is an adjunct professor at Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, N.H. and, since 2003, at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (also combined with GWU's summer program), Munich, and also at the university of Mainz and at McGill University, Montréal. She was a visiting professor at different universities in France and elsewhere, including Université Laval, Québec and University of Melbourne. She was the first Walter Minton Visiting Scholar at Columbia University School of Law, New York and the First Distinguished Visitor to the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA). In 1999, she was a judge at the German Final Round of the International Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition. Dr von Lewinski studied for her undergraduate degree in law at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, took her Bar Exam in Munich, obtained her degree of Doctor iuris (PhD) at Free University Berlin and received the "Heinrich-Hubmann" award, in the year of its establishment, for the best treaties in copyright 1991.