Criminal enforcement of intellectual property : a handbook of contemporary research / edited by Christophe Geiger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geiger, Christophe.

Series:

Research handbooks in intellectual property.

Research handbooks in intellectual property series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual property infringement.

Criminal liability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This wide-ranging Research Handbook is the first to offer a stimulating and systematic review of the framework for criminal enforcement of intellectual property rights. If counterfeiting constitutes an ever-growing international phenomenon with major economic and social repercussions, potentially affecting consumer safety and public health, the question of which are the appropriate instruments to enforce IP rights is a complex and sensitive one. Although criminal penalties can constitute strong and effective means of enforcement, serious doubts exist as to whether criminal sanctions are approp

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I COUNTERFEITING: A SOCIETY ISSUE; 1. Economic, legal and social impacts of counterfeiting; 2. Counterfeiting and consumer protection; 3. Counterfeiting and public health; 4. Anti-counterfeiting: a Trojan horse for expanding intellectual property protection in developing countries?; 5. From sweatshops to organized crime: the new face of counterfeiting; PART II COUNTERFEITING: FINDING THE RIGHT REMEDIES

Section 1 Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Criminal Enforcement: Historical, Economic and Psychological Aspects6. Historical perspective on criminal enforcement; 7. Criminal enforcement of intellectual property law: an economic approach; 8. Why do 'good people' disregard copyright on the Internet?; Section 2 The Legal Framework of Criminal Enforcement; 9. Criminal enforcement and international IP law; 10. Criminal liability for intellectual property infringement in Europe: the role of fundamental rights; 11. Criminal enforcement and European Union law

12. The Directive Proposal on criminal sanctionsSection 3 National Experiences on Criminal Enforcement; 13. Criminal enforcement in the US and Canada; 14. Shaping Chinese criminal enforcement norms through the TRIPS Agreement; 15. Criminalizing IP use in the UK: from trademark use to illicit downloads; 16. The French case: comparison of the past, present and future of criminal law; PART III COUNTERFEITING AND CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT: SELECTED ISSUES; 17. Strategies against counterfeiting of drugs: a comparative criminal law study; 18. Counterfeiting and the spare parts issue

19. Counterfeiting and the music industry: towards a criminalization of end users? The French 'HADOPI' exampleIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-91326-7

1-78100-514-1

OCLC:

818881997