Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property

A Handbook of Contemporary Research

Buch | Hardcover

432 Seiten

2012
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84980-146-1 (ISBN)

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This wide-ranging Research Handbook is the first to offer a stimulating and systematic review of the framework for criminal enforcement of intellectual property rights. If counterfeiting constitutes an ever-growing international phenomenon with major economic and social repercussions, potentially affecting consumer safety and public health, the question of which are the appropriate instruments to enforce IP rights is a complex and sensitive one. Although criminal penalties can constitute strong and effective means of enforcement, serious doubts exist as to whether criminal sanctions are appropriate in every infringement situation. Drawing on legal, economic, historical and judicial perspectives, this book provides a differentiated sector-by-sector approach to the question of enforcement, and draws useful conclusions for future legislative initiatives at European, international and national levels.

Offering a broad survey of the field, and a sound platform for further research, this legal and cross-disciplinary study by leading scholars will prove insightful for professors, researchers and students in intellectual property, criminal, competition, consumer protection and health law.

Contributors: C.M. Correa, J. Drexl, C. Geiger, D. Gervais, J. Gibson, J. Griffiths, H. Grosse Ruse-Khan, R.M. Hilty, H.-G. Koch, D. Lefranc, D. Matthews, T. Mylly, A. Ohly, A. Peukert, M.R. Roudaut, J. Schmidt-Szalewski, A. Wechsler, G. Westkamp, P.K. Yu

Edited by Christophe Geiger, Professor of Law, Luiss University, Italy

Contents:

Introduction
Christophe Geiger

PART I: COUNTERFEITING: A SOCIETY ISSUE
1. Economic, Legal and Social Impacts of Counterfeiting
Reto M. Hilty

2. Counterfeiting and Consumer Protection
Ansgar Ohly

3. Counterfeiting and Public Health
Duncan Matthews

4. Anti-counterfeiting: A Trojan Horse for Expanding Intellectual Property Protection in Developing Countries?
Carlos M. Correa

5. From Sweatshops to Organized Crime: The New Face of Counterfeiting
Mickaël R. Roudaut

PART II: COUNTERFEITING: FINDING THE RIGHT REMEDIES
Section 1. Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Criminal Enforcement: Historical, Economic and Psychological Aspects

6. Historical Perspective on Criminal Enforcement
David Lefranc

7. Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property Law: An Economic Approach
Andrea Wechsler

8. Why do ‘Good People’ Disregard Copyright on the Internet?
Alexander Peukert

Section 2. The Legal Framework of Criminal Enforcement

9. Criminal Enforcement and International IP Law
Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan

10. Criminal Liability for Intellectual Property Infringement in Europe: The Role of Fundamental Rights
Jonathan Griffiths

11. Criminal Enforcement and European Union Law
Tuomas Mylly

12. The Directive Proposal on Criminal Sanctions
Johanna Gibson

Section 3. National Experiences on Criminal Enforcement

13. Criminal Enforcement in the US and Canada
Daniel Gervais

14. Shaping Chinese Criminal Enforcement Norms through the TRIPS Agreement
Peter K. Yu

15. Criminalizing IP Use in the UK: From Trademark Use to Illicit Downloads
Guido Westkamp

16. The French Case: Comparison of the Past, Present and Future of Criminal Law
Joanna Schmidt-Szalewski

PART III: COUNTERFEITING AND CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT: SELECTED ISSUES
17. Strategies Against Counterfeiting of Drugs: A Comparative Criminal Law Study
Hans-Georg Koch

18. Counterfeiting and the Spare Parts Issue
Josef Drexl

19. Counterfeiting and the Music Industry: Towards a Criminalization of End Users? The French ‘HADOPI’ Example
Christophe Geiger

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.10.2012
Reihe/Serie	Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
ISBN-10	1-84980-146-0 / 1849801460
ISBN-13	978-1-84980-146-1 / 9781849801461
Zustand	Neuware