Expanding Intellectual Property

Hannes Siegrist is Professor Emeritus for the Social and Cultural History of Contemporary Europe at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy of the University of Leipzig, Germany Augusta Dimou is Gerda Henkel Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Cultural Studies, Chair of Comparative European History and Culture at the University of Leipzig, Germany

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Introduction

Hannes Siegrist and Augusta Dimou


PART I The Institutionalization of Intellectual Property Rights between National and International Contexts

1 Intellectual Property Rights and the Dynamics of Propertization, Nationalization, and Globalization in Modern Cultures and Economies

Hannes Siegrist

2 Power and Development: The Revision Conferences of 1967 and 1971 of the Berne Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention

Jonas Görtz

3 Legal Designs: Danish Designers as Court-Appointed Experts and the Expansion of the Concept of Copyright

Stina Teilmann-Lock

4 Intellectual Property and Competition Policy: Patent Pooling and Industrial Concentration in Germany (1890–1930)

Louis Pahlow

5 The Melting Pot of Copyright Law: Urheberrecht in Jerusalem

Michael Birnhack

6 “Aryanization” Expanded? Patent Rights of Jews under the Nazi Regime

Lida Barner


PART II Socialism: Copyright between System and Defiance

7 Copyright in the German Democratic Republic and the International Copyright Regime

Matthias Wiessner

8 From State Governance to Self-Management: Culture and Intellectual Property Rights in Communist Yugoslavia

Augusta Dimou

9 Samizdat, Copyright, and the State: Copyright as Censorship and the Differences between East and West

Debora Halbert


PART III Postsocialism: Renegotiating Copyright Norms in Europe

10 The Influence of EU Copyright Harmonization Directives on the Construction of Postsocialist Copyright Law in Central and Eastern Europe

Adolf Dietz

11 A New Concept in an Old Context: The Legal Framework of the Transformation of Intellectual Property in Macedonia after the Dissolution of Yugoslavia

Mišo Dokmanović

12 Opposing the Expansion of Copyright Law: Social Norms in the Quest against ACTA and the “Commodification of Knowledge and Culture Project”

Katarzyna Gracz


List of Contributors

Index