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Abstract
Laws of intellectual property define what is bought and sold on media and technology markets, notably works, trademarks, and inventions. Laws and treaties have traditionally been made and enforced by nation-states operating in a patchwork of territories. Now, the media and technology marketplace is being globalized in digital networks. The law is only beginning to respond to this change.
To analyze this process in the field of intellectual property, this Article will consider the following questions: First, how is the patchwork of national laws lagging behind new networks in this field? Second, how does the international regime of intellectual property leave these laws in conflicts relative to the emerging global marketplace? Third, what strategies are available to private parties for dealing with legal uncertainties that are emerging in the short term? Lastly, how can these strategies be coordinated in the long term?
Recommended Citation
Paul E. Geller,
From Patchwork to Network: Strategies for International Intellectual Property in Flux,
31 Vanderbilt Law Review
553
(2021)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vjtl/vol31/iss2/5