This book provides scholars, management professionals, researchers, and lawyers in the field of multimedia information technology and its institutional practice with thorough coverage of the full range of issues surrounding multimedia intellectual property protection and its proper solutions...

Information, property rights and innovation -- The most-used information protection means : capability and marketing -- Protecting disembodied information : 'intellectual property' -- International information protection -- Information protection and visions of the public good -- How interests...

Schutz und Nutzung geistigen Eigentums werden besonders in Bezug auf China viel diskutiert. Die Rechtsdurchsetzung ist dort nach wie vor schwierig, nationale und lokale Gegebenheiten ändern sich ständig. Der vorliegende Band reflektiert praktische Erfahrungen und Strategien deutscher...

Contents: Preface -- 1. Innovation, IP and intellectual capitalism -- 2. Analytical framework -- 3. Patents and innovations for growth and welfare - a literature review -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Patents, innovations and growth - empirical analysis -- 6. What explains fluctuations in patenting...

Copyright protection grants creators monopolies – with their attendant harms – in order to provide incentives for continued creation. File sharing, which exploded with Napster’s appearance in 1999, effectively weakened copyright protection. Researchers have documented depressing effects of...