Harmonizing Intellectual Property Law for a Trans-Atlantic Knowledge Economy

Péter Mezei, Ph.D. (2010), is Professor of Law at the University of Szeged, adjunct professor at the University of Turku, and chief researcher at the Vytautas Magnus University. He has regularly published on comparative, international, European and digital copyright law, including Copyright Exhaustion (2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2022). Hannibal Travis, J.D. (1999), is Professor of Law at the Florida International University and Co-Director of the Intellectual Property Certificate Program. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on intellectual property and Internet law, including Copyright Class Struggle: Creative Economies in a Social Media Age (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Anett Pogácsás, Ph.D. (2017), is Associate Professor at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. She has worked extensively in the field of intellectual property law, and besides relevant articles and book chapters, she co-authored Intellectual Property: Hungary (Wolters Kluwer, 2023).

Foreword


Acknowledgments


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Notes on Contributors





Harmonizing Intellectual Property Law for a Trans-Atlantic Knowledge Economy – an Introduction


 Péter Mezei, Hannibal Travis and Anett Pogácsás





Part 1: Pursuit of Harmonization


1 From Plato to WIPO: Old and New in Legal Harmonization


 Laura R. Ford





2 Augmented Creativity in a Harmonized Trans-Atlantic Knowledge Economy


 Hannibal Travis





3 Press Publications and the Curious Case of Exceptions to Neighbouring Rights


 Ana Lazarova





4 New Possibilities with Out-of-Commerce Works in the EU


 Dénes Legeza





Part 2: Divergencies in Harmonization


5 The Need for a More Balanced Policy Approach for Digital Exhaustion – a Critical Review of the Tom Kabinet and ReDigi Judgments


 Péter Mezei and Caterina Sganga





6 Online Rights’ Withdrawal and Collective Management – Harmonizing the Online Music Rights Withdrawals for a Trans-Atlantic Streaming Economy


 Lucius Klobucnik





7 “To Waive or not to Waive?” – Some Thoughts on the Role of Copyright Waiver


 Anett Pogácsás





8 Experimenting with EU Moral Rights Harmonisation and Works of Visual Arts: Dream or Nightmare?


 Giulia Dore





9 Towards Unified Protection of Users with Disabilities in EU IP Law?


 Karolina Sztobryn





Part 3: Innovation for or against Harmonization?


10 “Spooky” Innovation and Human Rights


 Hannibal Travis





11 Public Property from the Machine


 Mauritz Kop





12 AI Training Data: between Holy Grail and Forbidden Fruit


 David Linke





Part 4: The Challenges of Technological Advancements on IP Doctrine – Any Space for Harmonization Yet?


13 Navigating the Trans-Atlantic Design Protection Quandary


 Peter S. Menell





14 3D Printing, Digital Watermarking and Copyright Protection in CAD Design Files


 Ioanna Lapatoura





15 No More Convergence? Copyright Protection of Application Programming Interfaces in the USA and the EU


 Bohdan Widła





16 Photographic Works and Mere Photographies: a View of an Old Discussion under the Point of View of New Technologies


 Luis-Javier Capote-Pérez





Index