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Copyright as an Access Right: Concretizing Positive Obligations for Rightholders to Ensure the Exercise of User Rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This crucial development, which restores copyright as an access right (see Geiger, 2016 ; Efroni, 2010 ) provides a normative foundation to reinforce the societal bargain that creates incentives for authors, but also creates room for downstream creativity and innovation. However, it is only a first step towards making user’s rights a reality.

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Book Review: Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd Edition

The IPKat

The authors must have been quite busy, particularly in the past two years, diligently tracking the frequent IP law revisions (Trade Mark Law, Anti-Unfair Competition Law Revisions in 2019; Copyright Law and Patent Law Revisions in 2020) and, of course, the promulgation of the Civil Code (and the IP-related provisions therein) in 2020.

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[Guest post] Book review: ‘Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law: 20 Years of the IPKat’

The IPKat

And, speaking of the book, we are happy to re-publish the review that Bill Patry (Mayer Brown) provided of it, as just published by the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice. The second article is by Ms Maria Martin-Pratt, ‘Twenty Years After – the State of EU Copyright Law’.

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“Inducing” Copyright Infringement in Canada: Is it a Thing?

IPilogue

David Vaver is a member of IP Osgoode’s Advisory Board, an I ntellectual P roperty Law Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and an Emeritus Professor of IP & IT Law at the University of Oxford. A version of this paper is scheduled to be published in the Intellectual Property Journal. Thanks to Ronald M.

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WHAT, IN THE NAME OF GOD, …?: Intellectual Property Rights In Holy Names, Sacred Words, & Other Aspects of Creation

LexBlog IP

” Jarrod Welsh, Copyrighting God: New Copyright Guidelines Do Not Protect Divine Beings, 17 Rutgers Journal Of Law & Religion 121 (2015). copyright law. ”) Other religions “seek copyright for secrecy, but secrecy to protect their students[,].teachers ” Welsh (2015) at 134.