Protecting designs is complex and diverse; it involves deciding whether to protect them by design law, copyright law, or by both laws. A single protection may be under- or overprotective but two or more can be overprotective if there are no rules regulating the overlap. Legal systems in Europe and abroad have struggled to find the most adequate solution to this problem. This book traces the history of the design/copyright interface of 15 countries, selected for their diversity in the way they dealt with the interface. It examines how these countries have coped with the problems engendered by...

This book explores an emerging type of intellectual property remedy - an injunction that can compel innocent third parties to provide enforcement assistance.

In the increasingly knowledge and innovation-based economy in which the mobility of the workforce is vital, employees and ex-employees are considered to be one of the biggest threats to the existence of trade secrets. The interests of the former parties to the employment relationship are contradictory: employers want to safeguard their competitive position by limiting use of information and employees want to use that information to pursue their professional career. Magdalena Kolasa analyses existing guidelines that determine the extent to which former employees may use information learned...

A theoretical critique of the patent and innovation policy funnelled by intellectual property instruments towards developing countries.

Comprehensively discusses different aspects of the property metaphor in relation to intellectual property in a transnational perspective.

This comprehensive international and comparative account reconceptualises the public domain, providing new insights into copyright and copyright law reform.

Free speech, privacy and truth on the internet are linked in a messy, unruly way that needs to be embraced.

The first in-depth study of the history of copyright protecting the visual arts.

Leading experts from common law jurisdictions examine defamation and privacy, two major and interrelated issues for law and media.