Expanding Intellectual Property : : Copyrights and Patents in 20th Century Europe and beyond / / ed. by Augusta Dimou, Hannes Siegrist.

The book deals with the expansion and institutionalization of intellectual property norms in the twentieth century, with a European focus. Its thirteen chapters revolve around the transfer, adaptation and the ambivalence of legal transplants in the interface between national and international projec...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central Europe
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Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • I. The Institutionalization of Intellectual Property Rights between National and International Contexts
  • 1. Intellectual Property Rights and the Dynamics of Propertization, Nationalization, and Globalization in Modern Cultures and Economies
  • 2. Power and Development: The Revision Conferences of 1967 and 1971 of the Berne Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention
  • 3. Legal Designs: Danish Designers as Court-Appointed Experts and the Expansion of the Concept of Copyright
  • 4. Intellectual Property and Competition Policy: Patent Pooling and Industrial Concentration in Germany (1890–1930)
  • 5. The Melting Pot of Copyright Law: Urheberrecht in Jerusalem
  • 6. “Aryanization” Expanded? Patent Rights of Jews under the Nazi Regime
  • II. Socialism: Copyright between System and Defiance
  • 7. Copyright in the German Democratic Republic and the International Copyright Regime
  • 8. From State Governance to Self-Management: Culture and Intellectual Property Rights in Communist Yugoslavia
  • 9. Samizdat, Copyright, and the State: Copyright as Censorship and the Differences between East and West
  • III. Postsocialism: Renegotiating Copyright Norms in Europe
  • 10. The Influence of EU Copyright Harmonization Directives on the Construction of Postsocialist Copyright Law in Central and Eastern Europe
  • 11. A New Concept in an Old Context: The Legal Framework of the Transformation of Intellectual Property in Macedonia after the Dissolution of Yugoslavia
  • 12. Opposing the Expansion of Copyright Law: Social Norms in the Quest against ACTA and the “Commodification of Knowledge and Culture Project"
  • List of Contributors
  • Index