Intellectual property rights and the WTO

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In the context of the WTO, intellectual property rights (IPR) are codified in the TRIPS-agreement. While covering all the different types of IPR, landmark cases of the still young history of TRIPS have dealt with commercial copyrights. This paper summarizes the basic economics of the IPR branch commercial copyrights, reviews the TRIPS history and analyses two TRIPS landmark cases - China-IPR and US-copyrights - from an economic perspective. Eventually, the paper outlines new challenges for the international governance of IPR in the WTO context emerging from digital media. Against an economic background, the re-emergence of unilateral strategies to enforce cross-border commercial copyrights is met with skepticism against.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers ; No. 71

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital ; International Economic Order and Integration ; Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations ; Entertainment; Media ; Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact ; Current Heterodox Approaches: Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary
• Subject: intellectual property rights ; TRIPS ; world trade ; commercial copyrights ; media economics ; innovation ; Immaterialgüterrechte ; TRIPS ; Medienökonomik ; Innovation ; Digitale Güter ; Welt

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Budzinski, Oliver ; Monostori, Katalin
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Technische Universität Ilmenau, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
• (where): Ilmenau
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/57825
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET