by Jeremy de Beer | Apr 16, 2015 | Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Featured, Writing, Writing Featured
How are copyright royalties established in Canada? What is the tariff-setting process? How long does it take? What has been written about it? These are just some of the questions answered in my empirical review of copyright tariff setting. My research was initially conducted on behalf of the Government of Canada (the Department...
by Jeremy de Beer | May 28, 2014 | Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Featured, Speaking, Trade & Development, Writing, Writing Featured
Intellectual property provisions in international agreements should not be negotiated secretly, but transparently. They should not serve special interests, but the public interest. And they should not be one-sided, but fair and balanced. This can be done by adhering to the Max Planck Principles for Intellectual Property Provisions in Bilateral...
by Jeremy de Beer | May 22, 2014 | Intellectual Property, Speaking, Speaking Featured, Technology Innovation, Technology Innovation Featured, Trade & Development
Is there a role for intellectual property rights to play in the informal economy? What formal and informal strategies do informal sector actors use to appropriate benefits from their innovation? I’ve been exploring these questions through my co-leadership of the Open AIR project, and as an expert consultant on...
by Jeremy de Beer | Apr 25, 2014 | Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Featured, Writing
This article presents the results of a systematic review and analysis of the way that “the future” is addressed in intellectual property literature. Co-authored with two of my brightest students, it is available as an open access download in HTML or PDF format through its publisher, SCRIPTed, a high-quality, online,...
by Jeremy de Beer | Jan 30, 2014 | Intellectual Property, Writing, Writing Featured
Hyperlink, by SumAll, on Flickr. This peer-reviewed article in the European Intellectual Property Review provides a timely comparative analysis of recent Canadian and European Union (EU) copyright cases regarding the nature and scope of communication rights, as applied to the issue of copyright infringement liability for hyperlinking. Mira Burri...