This article deals with the contractual protection of databases which are publicly made available by their producers. The article reviews this issue in the European Union and the United States. It is useful to analyse database protection in this manner, especially in the United States where the...

Could intellectual property rights be the cause of global warming? After all, the greatest inventions of the two last centuries include the car, the plane and with them the use of oil and coal to generate energy. They are some of the causes that contribute the most to the increase of levels of...

The dominant justification for intellectual property rights at least in the West and international treaties is utilitarian, and more precisely based on the Chicago School of Law and Economics (first section). However, this school of thought is both flawed and ideological (second section). Basing...

One of the questions that this Congress addresses concerns an important relationship between competition law and intellectual property rights, namely the refusal to licence an intellectual property right such as a patent, trade mark, design or copyright and the correlative power of the...

Report 2: The treatment of parodies under copyright law in seven jurisdictions The purpose of this paper is to review the legal treatment of parodies in several key countries, with a view to identifying possible regulatory options for benefiting from a parody exception to copyright infringement,...