Intellectual Property and the Internet

Susy Frankel is professor of law, chair of intellectual property and international trade, and director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law at Victoria University of Wellington. She is the president of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) 2015–2017. Since 2008 she has been chair of the New Zealand Copyright Tribunal. Daniel Gervais is a the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, director of the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program, and faculty co-director of the LLM program. He is editor-in chief of the Journal of World Intellectual Property and editor of tripsagreement.net. In 2012, he became the first professor of law in North America to be elected to the Academy of Europe. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and an associate reporter of its Restatement of the Law of Copyright project. He is president of ATRIP 2017–2019.

Contents:
`Intellectual Property and Regulation of the Internet: The Nexus with Human and Economic Development: The Issues’
Susy Frankel and Daniel Gervais
`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
`The Internet, Facebook, Smart Phones and Intellectual Property Rights: A Happy Combination’
Estelle Derclaye, Nottingham University
`Brand Symbols, the Consumer, and the Internet’
Annette Kur, Max Planck Institute, Munich
`Towering Wave or Tempest in a Teapot? Synthetic Biology, Access and Benefit Sharing, and Economic Development’
Margo A. Bagley, Emory Law School
`The Importance of the US Telecommunications Act for Access to Knowledge: A Primer on the Net Neutrality Debate for Developing Countries’
Ruth L. Okediji, Harvard Law School
`Uber Copyright Reform’
Daniel Gervais, Vanderbilt Law School
`What Could Happen if Intellectual Property Is Treated Seriously as a Regulatory Regime?’
Susy Frankel, Victoria University of Wellington