Overview

What was the state of the law and how states managed to fulfil their international legal obligations under the law of nations with respect to intellectual property protection? 13 contributors show how the transition of intellectual property from private rights holders and their non-state patrons evolves into state lawmaking. The book presents these transitions through international legal perspectives and the history of intellectual property rights in late modern societies in Europe, the United States, Asia and Colonial States in Africa. Contributors are: Daniel Acquah, Ainee Adam, Louise Duncan, Johanna Gibson, Philip Johnson, Jyh-An Lee, Yangzi Li, P. Sean, Morris, Peter Munkacsi, Zvi Rosen, Devanshi Saxena, Johannes Thumfart, and Esther van Zimmeren.

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Author:   P. Sean Morris
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Martinus Nijhoff
Volume:   58/22
Weight:   0.857kg
ISBN:  

9789004439818

ISBN 10:   9004439811
Pages:   426
Publication Date:   19 May 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Framing the Law of Nations in Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century  P. Sean Morris Part 1: Industrial Innovation in History and Conflicts 1 The Key Historical Influences Leading to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of 1883  Louise J. Duncan 2 Challenging the Normative Impact of Technological Innovation  From the Norm Development Process of the Paris Convention to Global Patent Justice  Johannes Thumfart 3 Innovation Diplomacy  International Exhibitions and the Rise of Innovation in the Law of Nations  P. Sean Morris 4 Mr Patent Goes to War!  Industrial Property and the Breakdown of the International Order during World War I  Phillip Johnson Part 2: Film and Regal Approaches to Copyright 5 Stuck in a Waltz  The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Its Imperial Approach to the Berne Convention  Péter Munkácsi 6 The Man behind the Curtain  Developing Film’s Double Exposure of Intellectual Property  Johanna Gibson 7 The Untold Story of the First Copyright Statute of China  Exploring the 1910 Copyright Code of the Great Qing Dynasty  Jyh-An Lee and Yangzi Li Part 3: Trademarks, Terroir and the Colonies 8 The Crystallization of International Norms  A Case Study on Diffusion of Trademark Norms in Early-20th Century China  Ainee Adam 9 The Unusual Extension of Imperial Intellectual Property Laws to Colonies in Africa  Daniel Opoku Acquah 10 Early American Federal Trademark Law and the Law of Nations  Zvi S. Rosen 11 The Transforming Face of Terroir  Unde Venis Geographical Indications?  Devanshi Saxena and Esther van Zimmeren Index

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P. Sean Morris is a Research Scholar at the Faculty of Law University of Helsinki and an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki, Finland. Sean is the editor of two recent volumes on the Advisory Committee of Jurists (ACJ): Transforming the Politics of International Law: The Advisory Committee of Jurists and the Formation of the World Court in the League of Nations (Routledge, 2021); The League of Nations and the Development of International Law: A New Intellectual History of the Advisory Committee of Jurists (Routledge, 2021).

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