Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Intellectual Property - General

'The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain' addresses one of the most heated policy debates of our day: access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits. Seven scholars - an anthropologist, an economist, a sociologist, and four lawyers - discuss how a museum can flesh out the relevant ethical issues that frustrate any purely technical solution. The visitors to the proposed museum become a source of considered judgments. Commercial movies are screened and discussion follows about some aspect of bioprospecting, intellectual property,...

Unlike patents and copyrights, there is very little in the way of international standards or harmonization in trade secrets law. Nonetheless there is a growing realization that variable rules concerning trade secrets impact investment decisions, structuring of multinational businesses, and hiring policies. There is increasing concern that ineffective trade secrets protection will deter certain kinds of foreign direct investment and place a brake on cross-border trade and commercial agreements. On the other hand, because trade secrets protection tends to militate against labour mobility,...

In the past, efforts to reconcile the western concept of intellectual property with indigenous knowledge have not taken into account the schism between this knowledge and western scientific forms. As knowledge assumes increasing importance in the quest for self-determination, cultural survival, and economic empowerment, the gulf between indigenous and western scientific knowledge assumes a new meaning. In International Law and Indigenous Knowledge, Chidi Oguamanam argues that the crisis of legitimacy indigenous knowledge poses for the intellectual property system compels a...

Media law as a means of organization in the real world and the virtual world continues to gain in economic and cultural importance. The global market and the networking of information and communication processes require an improved legal framework for media law in the 21st century. It is not merely production conditions that have been impacted by the digital revolution, but the manner of marketing media products and the use of such are increasingly being conducted in the Internet.

In addition to the classical fields of media law, such as press, broadcasting and film, these five...

Fur die Unternehmen ist die Vermarktung von Medienprodukten als Waren von erheblicher wirtschaftlicher Bedeutung. Die Kulturindustrie hat ein okonomisches Interesse daran, dass die Medienprodukte den Nutzern zur Verfugung gestellt werden konnen. Das Internet erleichtert diesen Vorgang. Die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen sind dabei aber zu beachten. Die Autoren des 2. Bandes weisen in ihren Beitragen ausfuhrlich auf den Inhalt und den Umfang des Schutzes der Medienprodukte hin. Neben der Erlauterung der urheberrechtlichen Werkkategorien, wie z.B. Film- und Musikwerke, sowie des Software- und...

Media law as a regulatory framework also includes provisions regarding a company's marketing strategies in order to ensure that media products are profitably sold in an arena of fair competition. The third volume contains contributions which consider companies' relationships with one another in regard to media products. In addition to questions regarding media concentration in the areas of music, press and broadcasting, the fields of copyright law, competition law, trademark law as well as domain law are taken into consideration. This includes the protection of the title of a work as well...

'The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain' addresses one of the most heated policy debates of our day: access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits. Seven scholars - an anthropologist, an economist, a sociologist, and four lawyers - discuss how a museum can flesh out the relevant ethical issues that frustrate any purely technical solution. The visitors to the proposed museum become a source of considered judgments. Commercial movies are screened and discussion follows about some aspect of bioprospecting, intellectual property,...