Recent publications
IPKat - IP news and fun for everyone: Here are two recent publications from Oxford University Press that have recently come to the IPKat’s attention:
The first is International Copyright Law and Policy, by the internationally-respected German scholar Silke von Lewinski. Professor von Lewinski has an international dimension to her own academic persona, being Head of Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Law, Munich and Adjunct Professor, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord.
What the publisher says:
“This book deals comprehensively with the major treaties and conventions covering the law of international copyright and neighbouring rights. It explains the complex legal, economic and political background to the treaties and their contents, and how they interrelate. There is also practical commercial discussion of how copyright and neighbouring 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 neighbouring rights may develop in the future.
The book is intended to be a definitive account of the law of international copyright and neighbouring rights, but it is also intended to be accessible to non-specialist practitioners. It is fully cross-referenced to a forthcoming companion volume, European Copyright Law and Policy (expected to publish in 2008), offering readers a comprehensive approach to the subject. The author has been consulted on copyright policy on numerous occasions by various governmental and non-governmental organisations within and outside the EC, and therefore is ideally placed to give an inside view on how policy is formed”.What the IPKat says:
“Words like ‘definitive’ and ‘comprehensive’ are proud boasts that are easier to claim than to justify, and the author’s subject is a vast one. However, if one starts from the present…