Ownership problems of overlaps in European intellectual property
Intellectual Property rights are expanding and, thus, overlapping more than ever before. This poses challenges to a system devised as comprising a set of isolated compartments, each with its defined purpose.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baden-Baden, [Germany] :
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
2014
2014. |
| Colección: | MIPLC studies ;
Volume 8. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424526606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I The legal framework of ownership and overlaps
- A. Introduction: the problem
- 1. The phenomenon of overlaps
- 2. Why are split ownerships a problem?
- 3. Methodology
- 4. Sequence
- B. The ownership of copyright
- 1. Author's rights vs. copyright
- 2. Special cases of ownership
- a) Employee's creations
- 1. Work for hire
- 2. Presumed assignment or licence
- b) Several authors
- 1. Joint Works
- 2. Connected works
- 3. Collective works
- 4. Copyright in cinematographic works
- II Cases of ownership problems of overlaps
- A. The case of trade marks & designs
- Prior design
- Prior trade mark
- B. The case of trade marks & copyright
- C. The case of registered designs & copyright
- D. The case of databases: sui generis right & copyright
- E. The case of software and computer implemented inventions
- III Possible solutions to the problem
- A. The extent of the problem
- B. A general solution?
- 1. Avoiding the problem
- a) Avoiding overlaps?
- b) Avoiding differences in ownership?
- 2. Prevalence
- 3. Contractual or quasi-contractual solutions
- a) Implied licence
- b) Abuse of rights
- 4. Expanding copyright-internal solutions by analogy
- a) On Analogy
- b) Connected works
- c) Joint works
- IV Conclusion
- Annex
- Annex I: The interface of designs and copyright under Russian law
- Annex II: Selected Legislative Provisions
- UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
- The Copyright (Industrial Process and Excluded Articles) (No. 2) Order 1989
- Ireland Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000
- Austrian Copyright Act
- German Copyright Act
- French Intellectual Property Code
- Italian Copyright Act
- Portuguese Copyright Act
- Greek Copyright Act
- Dutch Copyright Act
- First Proposal for a Council Directive on the legal protection of databases COM (92) 24 final, 13 May 1992
- European Copyright Code
- Bibliography
- Books
- Articles and Contributions to edited books
- Research papers.
- Official documents and other materials
- Cases.
