The Social Structure of Japanese Intellectual Property Law

In this Essay, I review and elaborate on Dan's Burk's On the Sociology of Patenting with three "heuristic interventions" for the study of intellectual property law. These interventions derive from sociology and anthropology, and to some extent also from critical literary theory. Unoriginal in the social sciences, these heuristic interventions remain largely original to the study of law within law schools and traditional legal scholarship (as opposed to the study of law from within the social sciences and humanities). Burk joins a small but growing group of legal scholars, reaching beyond legal doctrinal analysis and the economic analysis of law to explain intellectual property law as a social practice. The interventions he begins and this essay explains in further depth reframe the understanding or analysis of intellectual property (1) from individuals to institutions, (2) from causation to explanation and (3) in the context of the domestication of IP in contemporary social and political culture. In this way, Burk's Article and this essay demonstrate how law (not only intellectual property or patent law) is a social practice both reflecting and forming social structures, the understanding of which requires attention to organization and culture as much or more than statutes, cases, administrative filings, and economic theory.

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Towards a Normative Theory of the Intellectual Commons

Intellectual Commons and the Law: A Normative Theory for Commons-Based Peer Production ◽

10.16997/book49.i ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 129-153

Author(s):

Antonios Broumas

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Property ◽

Normative Theory ◽

Social Value ◽

Moral Justification ◽

Property Law ◽

Intellectual Property Law ◽

The Social ◽

Work Value ◽

Intellectual Commons

Recapitulating earlier chapters that established the social value of commons-based activity the chapter offers a unified normative theory of the intellectual commons in support of an intellectual commons law. As the normative denouement of the book, this chapter down the foundations for the critical normative theory of the intellectual commons and the moral justification of an intellectual commons law and is structured into six interlinked sections starting with a statement of the basic tenets of a critical normative theory of the intellectual commons. The subsequent four sections examine the normative dimensions of the intellectual commons, i.e. personhood, work, value and community. Concluding sections briefly outline the contours of an intellectual commons law in alignment with the normative evaluations of the chapter. The ethical arguments of the model overall have established the moral grounds and present the framework for a distinct and independent body of law for the protection and promotion of the intellectual commons beyond the inherent limitations of intellectual property law.

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ДО ПРОБЛЕМИ ВИОКРЕМЛЕННЯ КАТЕГОРІЇ «ТВОРЧІ ПРАВОВІДНОСИНИ ІНТЕЛЕКТУАЛЬНОЇ ВЛАСНОСТІ»

Наукові праці Національного університету “Одеська юридична академія” ◽

10.32837/npnuola.v12i0.224 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

pp. 170-181

Author(s):

О. І. Харитонова

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Property ◽

Property Law ◽

Industrial Property ◽

Intellectual Property Law ◽

Rights Protection ◽

The Social ◽

Different Types

Питання охорони прав інтелектуальної власності є на сьогоднішній день дуже актуальним та, на жаль, недостатньо розробленим. Аспекти, розглянуті в даній статті, дають підстави розрізняти види цивільних правовідносин інтелектуальної власності на авторські правовідносини; правовідносини, суміжні з авторськими; правовідносини промислової власності; правовідносини, суміжні з правовідносинами промислової власності; індивідуалізаційні правовідносини інтелектуальної власності (правовідносини індивідуалізації). Даний розподіл дозволяє охопити всі сфери суспільного життя інституту права інтелектуальної власності. Intellectual rights protection is an urgent, but unfortunately not well developed issue today. The aspects, which have been considered in this article, provide a basis for distinguishing between different types of intellectual legal relationships, such as author and allied legal relationships, industrial property and allied legal relationships, identifying intellectual property legal relationships (legal relationships of identification). This classification integrates all the social spheres of intellectual property law institute.

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