Expanding Intellectual Property

Augusta DimouHannes Siegrist (ed.)

Title: Expanding Intellectual Property
Subtitle: Copyrights and Patents in 20th Century Europe and beyond
Author: Augusta Dimou
Editor: Hannes Siegrist
Price: € 141,00 excl. VAT
ISBN: 9789633861851
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 324
Language: English
Publication date: 15 - 06 - 2017
Dimensions: 15.9 x 23.4 cm
Series: CEU Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central Europe
Category: Legal Studies
Discipline: Social and Political Sciences
Imprint: CEU Press
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Acknowledgements

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

Augusta Dimou

Hannes Siegrist (ed.)

Expanding Intellectual Property

Copyrights and Patents in 20th Century Europe and beyond

The book deals with the expansion and institutionalization of intellectual property norms in the twentieth century, with a European focus. Its thirteen chapters revolve around the transfer, adaptation and the ambivalence of legal transplants in the interface between national and international projects, trends and contexts. The first part discusses the institutionalization of copyright and patent law in the frame- work of the bigger political and economic projects of the twentieth century. The second and third parts of the collection review relevant processes in the communist regimes and the post-communist societies, respectively. The essays point at processes of enculturation, trans-nationalization and universalization of norms, as well as practices of incorporation and resistance. The contributors lay a particular emphasis on the role and activity of social actors in the establishment and validation of intellectual property norms and regimes, from the function of experts and creation of expert cultures to the compelling power of popular street protests.

Author

Augusta Dimou

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. She is a historian specializing in contemporary comparative European History with a regional focus on Southeast and East-Central Europe. She is currently completing her habilitation on the development of intellectual property rights and cultural politics in twentieth-century Eastern Europe.

Editor

Hannes Siegrist

Hannes Siegriest 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. He is member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and stands on the advisory board of the Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe of the University of Leipzig.