Copyright legislation, at least in its implementation, can be seen as a triumph of international harmonisation. However, in the area of joint works this is not the case. In the comparison of a North American and European country we observe very different outcomes, despite the similar statutory...

Internet growth, content digitisation, and expanding “big data” and data analytics capabilities have affected the ways in which publicly funded research results are accessed, disseminated and used. While these technological advances have made sharing and processing information easier, that...

Last year, before the onset of a global pandemic highlighted the critical and urgent need for technology-enabled scientific research, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) launched an inquiry into issues at the intersection of intellectual property (IP) and artificial intelligence...

The purpose of this chapter is to explore the legal consequences of the digitisation of cultural heritage institutions' collections and in particular to establish whether digitisation processes can trigger forms copyright and copyright-related protection under EU law. Whereas the study will also...

Many developing and least developed countries are facing new challenges brought on by agricultural biotechnology. This paper offers biotech policy choices in the process of developing comprehensive biotech regulatory systems. This paper examines whether or not there are WTO obligations on...