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Advisory Board |
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Editorial |
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1 The challenges facing IP systems: researching for the future |
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1 | (46) |
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1 | (2) |
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3 | (26) |
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3 | (10) |
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B Alternative legal strategies |
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13 | (7) |
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20 | (9) |
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29 | (16) |
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29 | (5) |
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34 | (11) |
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45 | (2) |
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2 The digital economy, digital society, and private law |
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47 | (28) |
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I Disclaimer, argument and structure |
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48 | (6) |
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II Production, consumption and the digital economy and society |
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54 | (8) |
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A Production society, private law and labour law |
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54 | (2) |
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B Consumption society, private law and consumer law |
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56 | (2) |
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C The digital society, private law and digital law |
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58 | (4) |
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III Digitization --- rupture or continuity --- new private law |
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62 | (5) |
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62 | (3) |
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65 | (2) |
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IV Consequences of continuity/rupture for private law and the law on digital relations |
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67 | (6) |
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A European and German initiatives |
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69 | (2) |
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B A plea for a holistic perspective |
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71 | (2) |
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V Instead of a concluding remark |
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73 | (2) |
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3 Unfair competition law --- an annex to IP law? A consumer protection law? A legal field in its own right? |
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75 | (25) |
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75 | (2) |
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II `We do not have any unfair competition law' |
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77 | (2) |
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III The roots of unfair competition law: Art. 10bis of the Paris Convention |
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79 | (3) |
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IV The emergence of consumer protection |
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82 | (1) |
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V The purpose of protection: from `B2B' to `B2C' |
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83 | (3) |
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VI Can fairness be defined? The unease with regulating ethical issues |
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86 | (5) |
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VII Blurring the interfaces to IP law, antitrust law and contract law |
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91 | (3) |
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VIII Is German unfair competition law `over-' or `under-enforced'? How not to compare apples with pears |
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94 | (3) |
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97 | (3) |
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4 Property abandoned? Rights, wrongs and forgetting Durkheim |
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100 | (21) |
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100 | (4) |
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II Property as the problem? |
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104 | (1) |
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III Disentangling possession from property is the answer? |
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105 | (3) |
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IV Competing collective conscience |
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108 | (1) |
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V Regulatory reflections --- new conscience collective |
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109 | (3) |
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VI Re-creating fair access for users --- new law and social good |
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112 | (3) |
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VII Law as a change agent? |
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115 | (1) |
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VIII Radically rethinking law and property |
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116 | (1) |
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IX `Seeking similarity, appreciating difference' |
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117 | (4) |
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5 The forsaken PTO: some observations on public policies concerning intellectual property law in Brazil |
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121 | (25) |
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Pedro Marcos Nunes Barbosa |
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121 | (4) |
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II A sad but true story: the abandoned structure of the Brazilian PTO |
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125 | (5) |
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III Magic tricks and miracles: the art of using makeup to avoid allocating energy to solving severe problems |
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130 | (5) |
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A The automatic grant (or `revival') |
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130 | (3) |
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B Extending decisions of foreign PTOs to Brazil |
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133 | (1) |
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133 | (1) |
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134 | (1) |
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IV The nature of IPRs under Brazilian constitutional law |
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135 | (4) |
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A Consumer assets as property |
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135 | (1) |
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B Civil assets as property |
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136 | (1) |
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C Production assets as property |
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137 | (2) |
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V The overlap trend and the erosion of the thresholds to IPR protection |
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139 | (5) |
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A The banalization of overlapping IPRs |
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140 | (3) |
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B The erosion of the thresholds for obtaining IPR protection |
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143 | (1) |
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144 | (2) |
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6 Intellectual property and the bundle-of-rights metaphor |
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146 | (34) |
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146 | (4) |
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II Copyright considered as property |
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150 | (6) |
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A The traditional property-based approaches to IP and their critique |
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151 | (3) |
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B Copyright legally defined as a property right |
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154 | (1) |
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C What `property' does to copyright |
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155 | (1) |
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III The bundle-of-rights concept of property |
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156 | (8) |
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A The notion of a `bundle of rights' |
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157 | (1) |
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B A historiography of the bundle of rights |
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158 | (6) |
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IV The key lessons of the bundle-of-rights metaphor for (intellectual) property |
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164 | (13) |
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A A pluralistic view of property regimes |
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164 | (1) |
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B Property, a social construction |
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165 | (2) |
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C The limitations of property |
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167 | (1) |
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168 | (3) |
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E A distributive approach and the separability of entitlements |
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171 | (3) |
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F The variable degree of exclusion |
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174 | (3) |
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177 | (3) |
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7 Uses and abuses of database rights |
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180 | (23) |
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180 | (3) |
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II Digital datasets and automated data collections as databases |
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183 | (1) |
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III Copyrightable databases |
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184 | (3) |
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IV Databases and software protection |
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187 | (1) |
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V Digital databases and the sui generis right |
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188 | (4) |
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VI Uses and abuses of database rights |
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192 | (6) |
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VII The abuse of right doctrine in Italy |
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198 | (3) |
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201 | (2) |
Index |
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