International Copyright Law and Policy

This book deals comprehensively with the major treaties and conventions covering the law of international copyright and neighbouring rights. It explains the complex legal, economic and political background to the treaties and their contents, and how they inter-relate. There is also practical commercial discussion of how copyright and neighbouring rights are treated in international trade measures such as GATT, WTO, NAFTA, and bilateral and unilateral treaties, witha section devoted to how unilateral trade measures are applied by the USA in particular. There is also some discussion of how international copyright law and neighbouring rights may develop in thefuture.The book is intended to be a definitive account of the law of international copyright and neighbouring rights, but it is also intended to be accessible to non-specialist practitioners. It is fully cross-referenced to a forthcoming companion volume, European Copyright Law and Policy (expected to publish in 2008), offering readers a comprehensive approach to the subject. The author has been consulted on copyright policy on numerous occasions by variousgovernmental and non-governmental organisations within and outside the EC, and therefore is ideally placed to give an inside view on how policy is formed.

Silke von Lewinski is head of the department specialising in international and European copyright law, at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Munich. Dr von Lewinski has acted as a consultant to the European Commission on several occasions, for example on the EC Rental Rights Directive (drafting the EC proposal and steering it through the legislative process), and at the WIPO Diplomatic Conference 1996, where she was a member of the delegation ofthe European Communities. At the WIPO Diplomatic Conference 2000 on Audiovisual Performances, she was a delegate for Germany. She has been the chief legal expert consulted by the governments of Easternand Central European and former Soviet countries on their copyright legislation in the framework of the EC's TA programs PHARE and TACIS, and has worked on subsequent EC programs, including in Asia. She has written numerous publications, and given lectures worldwide, which have focussed on copyright law, primarily at international and European levels. Dr. von Lewinski is an adjunct professor at Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, N.H. and, since 2003, at the Munich Intellectual Property LawCenter (also combined with GWU's summer program), Munich, and also at the university of Mainz and at McGill University, Montréal. She was a visiting professor at different universities in France andelsewhere, including Université Laval, Québec and University of Melbourne. She was the first Walter Minton Visiting Scholar at Columbia University School of Law, New York and the First Distinguished Visitor to the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA). In 1999, she was a judge at the German Final Round of the International Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition. Dr von Lewinski studied for her undergraduate degree in law at the Ludwig MaximilianUniversity, Munich, took her Bar Exam in Munich, obtained her degree of Doctor iuris (PhD) at Free University Berlin and received the "Heinrich-Hubmann" award, in the year of its establishment, for the best treaties incopyright 1991.

This book deals comprehensively with the major treaties and conventions covering the law of international copyright and neighbouring rights. It explains the complex legal, economic and political background to the treaties and their contents, and how they inter-relate. There is also practical commercial discussion of how copyright and neighbouring rights are treated in international trade measures such as GATT, WTO, NAFTA, and bilateral and unilateral treaties, with a section devoted to how unilateral trade measures are applied by the USA in particular. There is also some discussion of how international copyright law and neighbouring rights may develop in the future.The book is intended to be a definitive account of the law of international copyright and neighbouring rights, but it is also intended to be accessible to non-specialist practitioners. It is fully cross-referenced to a forthcoming companion volume, European Copyright Law and Policy (expected to publish in 2008), offering readers a comprehensive approach to the subject. The author has been consulted on copyright policy on numerous occasions by various governmental and non-governmental organisations within and outside the EC, and therefore is ideally placed to give an inside view on how policy is formed.

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