The WTO has begun its work on the interface between Big Data and trade law, including the TRIPS Agreement. After defining Big Data, this paper explores how TRIPS and especially the copyright section might apply. It also discusses briefly the EU database right and then considers how an exception...

TRIPS and development -- The international intellectual property system : treaties, norms, national courts, and private ordering -- Economic growth and intellectual property rights protection : a reassessment of the conventional wisdom -- Intellectual property treaties and development --...

Investor-state dispute-settlement (ISDS) clauses give multinational investors (corporations) a right to sue a state in a binding proceeding before an independent arbitration tribunal. This jurisgenerative right to file a claim in an international tribunal with mandatory jurisdiction is generally...

Because TRIPS introduced a high(er) level of intellectual property protection in a number of developing countries, it provides an opportunity to examine the impact of the introduction of (property) rights on a variety of intangibles in legal systems from which those rights were absent. One...

Is it copyright's role to fill houses with books? / Rebecca Giblin, Monash University -- Conjectures on governance and wholesale copyright licensing / Adriane Porcin, University of Manitoba -- Uber copyright reform / Daniel Gervais, Vanderbilt Law School -- Towering wave or tempest in a teapot?...

The debate concerning the protection of, and access to, “traditional knowledge” has been going on for some time. Academics, governments, non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations, and representatives of indigenous communities have made arguments on many different levels. The most...