Abbe E.L. Brown, Charlotte Waelde (ed.), Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Creative Industries

• Author: Veronika Fischer
• Position: Dr. jur., attorney at law in Karlsruhe, research assistant at the Center for Applied Legal studies, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and Secretary General of the German Association for Law and Informatics (DGRI)
• Pages: 341-344

Abbe E.L. Brown, Charlotte Waelde (ed.), Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Creative Industries

2018

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Abbe E.L. Brown, Charlotte Waelde (ed.),

Research Handbook on Intellectual

Property and Creative Industries

Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA, USA, 2018

by Veronika Fischer, Dr. jur., attorney at law in Karlsruhe, research assistant at the Center for Applied Legal

studies, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and Secretary General of the German Association for Law and

Informatics (DGRI).

© 2018 Veronika Fischer

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Recommended citation: Veronika Fis cher, Book Review: Abbe E.L. Brown , Charlotte Waelde (ed.), Resear ch Handbook on

Intellectual Proper ty and Creative Industries, 9 (2018) JIPI TEC 341 para 1.

1 The collection was initiated in the series “Research

Handbooks on Intellectual Property” by Edward

Elgar. It follows an international and comparative

approach and brings together practitioners and

scholars to examine current issues in intellectual

property law and related elds such as life sciences,

geographical indications, indigenous intellectual

property, intellectual property exhaustion and

parallel imports, and so forth.

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The editors of the volume, Abbe E.L. Brown (School of

Law, University of Aberdeen) and Charlotte Waelde

(Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University)

intend to investigate the signicance of intellectual

property law for the creative industries. In doing

so, they are faced with the challenge of dening

the term of the creative industries and at the same

time complementing the extensive literature on

this topic. For this purpose, the editors identied

particular regions and aspects that have been less

highlighted in the debate. Furthermore, they added

some selected interdisciplinary views. The focus is

on proving the legal framework against the backdrop

of disruptive technologies, the development of new

business models, and legal policy objectives.

3 The volume is divided into six parts. Part I: Setting

the Scene, forms the basis for further investigation

in the context of the challenges posed by digitization.

Philip Schlesinger (University of Glasgow) recalls the

discussion about the economization aspect of the

creative industries on the one hand and the identity-

creating effect of the so-called cultural industries on

the other. He then discusses relevant developments

in European legislation, in particular the regulation

of cross-border portability of online content and the

Digital Single Market Strategy, which form a part of

an economically oriented Agenda.

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Afterwards, Mathilde Pavis, Hasan Kadir Yilmaztekin

(University of Exeter) and Stina Teilmann-Lock

(University of Southern Denmark) give an introduction

to the various intellectual property rights and

their respective objectives. While Pavis focuses

on copyright and related rights, Teilmann-Lock

explores designs, utility models and patents, and

Yilmaztekin deals with trademarks, passing off and

unfair competition.

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Christian Handke (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

explores the economic perspective. He addresses

resource allocation, market failure and the challenges

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