According to the European Commission’s Circular Economy Action Plan, electronic devices need to be more durable, reusable, upgradeable and repairable. Although some enacted or proposed legislative changes are dealing with this issue, there remains the question of control over the aftermarkets...

First released in early 2019, Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union is still the only book completely devoted to the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the EU copyright field.It seeks to understand the Court’s role and action in the area of...

Indian competition law follows the philosophy of contemporary competition laws and targets at nurturing competition and at protecting the relevant Indian markets to counter the anticompetitive practices by enterprises. The Competition Act, 2002 prohibits anticompetitive agreements, abuse of...

Copyright’s place within European Union (EU) law and within the wider e-Commerce environment is undoubtedly significant. Nonetheless, copyright law is less well integrated into the EU legal order than some other key areas of commercial and e-Commerce law, such as competition law. It is...

This essay will explore the future of U.S. intellectual property laws for the fashion industry in five major segments. First, in order to envision the future, the first chapter will look at the past and current issues of what intellectual property laws offer fashion designs and designers in the...

Ideas are at the center of all of our inventive, creative, and commercial activities. Defining the contours of the law of ideas, however, has often proved to be an elusive endeavor. It is a body of law that exists just outside of the domain of traditional intellectual property law, yet it lies...

In today’s reality, technology is to be a core aspect of our life. More and more people interact through social media and other methods such as messengers. However, recently, another innovation that started to be trendy is named the metaverse. It permits people to have the next level of...

THE PROPOSED COPYRIGHT in the Digital Single Market Directive (COM(2016)593) of July 2016 would introduce a new intellectual property right for publishers of press publications, or ‘PIP’. Publishers would have the exclusive right to authorize or prohibit any reproduction (in whole or in...

The famous author E.B. White once stated, “Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process.” Interestingly, this quote was raised by the Hon. Kimba M. Wood in the renowned contracts case Leonard v. Pepsico, when determining whether a comical commercial should be...