This article seeks to compare Singapore’s current intellectual property laws with her obligations under the TRIPs Accord. The article seeks to demonstrate that whilst Singapore’s intellectual property laws are well developed, Singapore will have to adjust some of her existing intellectual proper...   MORE>>

This article examines the remedy of additional damages, which is one of the remedies (and types of damages) available for copyright infringement. Despite the fact that such a remedy has existed in copyright law for many years, it seems to have assumed greater importance in the last few years, judgin...   MORE>>

Digitisation and digital communications have led to a revolution in the presentation and use of information. However, the law of copyright has been locked into various paradigms or norms which are now hindering its recognition of new species of digital works. This paper looks at some of these paradi...   MORE>>

Introduction

The protection of intellectual property rights in developing countries has been problematic since the genesis of the international system in the nineteenth century. From the moment a select group of European countries concluded a multilateral agreement for the protection of industria...   MORE>>

I. INTRODUCTION

Most of us have business clients who advertise their goods or services. Suppose one day next week one of your clients calls and advises you that her business has been sued by a competitor who claims to have been tortiously injured as a result of your client’s trademark infringem...   MORE>>

“There is no inevitable historical force that drives the technological-economic moment toward an open, diverse, liberal equilibrium. If the transformation . . . actually generalizes and stabilizes, it could lead to substantial redistribution of power and money. The twentieth-century industrial pro...   MORE>>

Copyright is a system of federal regulation that empowers private actors to silence others, yet no one seriously doubts that copyright is consistent in principle with the First Amendment freedom of speech. Scholars and courts have tried to resolve the tension between exclusive rights in expression a...   MORE>>

1 Introduction

The Internet has changed from a quiet means of communication among academic and scientific research circles to a major global data pipeline through which large amounts of 'locked' intellectual property and proprietary information are moved. Whereas earlier technologies such as phot...   MORE>>

China’s copyright regime, which American businesses have repeatedly complained is not sufficiently enforced, could be successfully encouraged through a cultural policy, as an alternative to a trade policy. Through a cultural perspective, the concept of copyright might not be as remote to China’s...   MORE>>

I. INTRODUCTION

With its current annual budget of $30.5 billion, the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) makes no small mark in the field of competitive research grant funding. More than eighty percent of that number is awarded to researchers around the world to fund their research, the ver...   MORE>>