Expanding Intellectual Property

Copyrights and Patents in 20th Century Europe and beyond

Hannes Siegrist, Augusta Dimou, Hannes Siegrist, Augusta Dimou, Augusta Dimou, Hannes Siegrist

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9789633861851
• eBook ISBN:
  9789633861868
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Copyright Law
• Index: Law

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 projects, trends and contexts. The first part discusses the institutionalization of copyright and patent law in the frame- work of the bigger political and economic projects of the twentieth century. The second and third parts of the collection review relevant processes in the communist regimes and the post-communist societies, respectively. The essays point at processes of enculturation, trans-nationalization and universalization of norms, as well as practices of incorporation and resistance. The contributors lay a particular emphasis on the role and activity of social actors in the establishment and validation of intellectual property norms and regimes, from the function of experts and creation of expert cultures to the compelling power of popular street protests.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I The Institutionalization of Intellectual Property Rights between National and International Contexts
• II Socialism: Copyright between System and Defiance
• III Postsocialism: Renegotiating Copyright Norms in Europe
• 10 The Influence of EU Copyright Harmonization Directives on the Construction of Postsocialist Copyright Lawin Central and Eastern Europe (Adolf Dietz)
• 11 A New Concept in an Old Context: The Legal Framework of the Transformation of Intellectual Property in Macedonia after the Dissolution of Yugoslavia (Mišo Dokmanović)
• 12 Opposing the Expansion of Copyright Law: Social Normsin the Quest against ACTA and the “Commodification of Knowledge and Culture Project” (Katarzyna Gracz)
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Back cover