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Pruning The European Intellectual Property Tree - In Search Of Common Principles And Roots, Severine Dusollier
Pruning The European Intellectual Property Tree - In Search Of Common Principles And Roots, Severine Dusollier
Severine Dusollier
The European Union knows a multiplicity of IP rights, from classical ones (copyright, patent, trademark or design) to more marginal ones, in terms of economic sectors concerned (rights in database, in plant varieties, in semiconductors, in geographical indications). This paper aims at identifying and assessing the existing similarities or common principles in the intellectual property rights in the European Union. Despite their apparent diverging functions, subject matter and scope of protection, copyright, trademark, patent and the other intellectual property rights share at least the fact that they belong to a set of rules granting some exclusive rights in intangible assets, …
Drm At The Intersection Of Copyright Law And Technology : A Case Study For Regulation, Severine Dusollier
Drm At The Intersection Of Copyright Law And Technology : A Case Study For Regulation, Severine Dusollier
Severine Dusollier
Digital Rights Management, that have been deployed to enforce copyright, present an interesting case study for regulation. DRM, as a technology, has significant effects on copyright regulation. When applied to limiting access or controlling the use of some works, and reinforced by anti-circumvention provisions, a DRM system acts as a technical norm regulating the very use of a copyrighted work, as copyright regulation does. But the normative effect of DRM technologies is rather different in terms of content and in terms of nature. Mere access to and use of works are now under control, whereas copyright is traditionally limited to …