Overview

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 framework 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.

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Author:   Hannes Siegrist (Professor Emeritus, University of Leipzig) ,  Augusta Dimou (Chair of Comparative European History and Culture, University of Leipzig)
Publisher:   Central European University Press
Imprint:   Central European University Press
Weight:   0.565kg
ISBN:  

9789633861851

ISBN 10:   9633861853
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   15 June 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Hannes Siegrist and Augusta Dimou PART 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 Hannes Siegrist 2 Power and Development: The Revision Conferences of 1967 and 1971 of the Berne Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention Jonas Görtz 3 Legal Designs: Danish Designers as Court-Appointed Experts and the Expansion of the Concept of Copyright Stina Teilmann-Lock 4 Intellectual Property and Competition Policy: Patent Pooling and Industrial Concentration in Germany (1890–1930) Louis Pahlow 5 The Melting Pot of Copyright Law: Urheberrecht in Jerusalem Michael Birnhack 6 “Aryanization” Expanded? Patent Rights of Jews under the Nazi Regime Lida Barner PART II Socialism: Copyright between System and Defiance 7 Copyright in the German Democratic Republic and the International Copyright Regime Matthias Wiessner 8 From State Governance to Self-Management: Culture and Intellectual Property Rights in Communist Yugoslavia Augusta Dimou 9 Samizdat, Copyright, and the State: Copyright as Censorship and the Differences between East and West Debora Halbert PART 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 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 Norms in the Quest against ACTA and the “Commodification of Knowledge and Culture Project” Katarzyna Gracz List of Contributors Index

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"""This collection represents a valuable contribution to the growing sub-field of intellectual property history, which seeks to examine the development of IP legal systems within their social, political, and cultural contexts.""--Barbara Lauriat"

"""This collection represents a valuable contribution to the growing sub-field of intellectual property history, which seeks to examine the development of IP legal systems within their social, political, and cultural contexts."" --Barbara Lauriat"

This collection represents a valuable contribution to the growing sub-field of intellectual property history, which seeks to examine the development of IP legal systems within their social, political, and cultural contexts.--Barbara Lauriat

Author Information

Hannes Siegrist is Professor Emeritus for the Social and Cultural History of Contemporary Europe at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy of the University of Leipzig, Germany Augusta Dimou is Gerda Henkel Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Cultural Studies, Chair of Comparative European History and Culture at the University of Leipzig, Germany

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