Intellectual property rights and the WTO

Oliver Budzinski and Katalin Monostori

No 71, Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers from Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics

Abstract: In the context of the WTO, intellectual property rights (IPR) are codified in the TRIPS-agreement. While covering all the different types of IPR, landmark cases of the still young history of TRIPS have dealt with commercial copyrights. This paper summarizes the basic economics of the IPR branch commercial copyrights, reviews the TRIPS history and analyses two TRIPS landmark cases - China-IPR and US-copyrights - from an economic perspective. Eventually, the paper outlines new challenges for the international governance of IPR in the WTO context emerging from digital media. Against an economic background, the re-emergence of unilateral strategies to enforce cross-border commercial copyrights is met with skepticism against.

Keywords: intellectual property rights; TRIPS; world trade; commercial copyrights; media economics; innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B52 D02 F02 F13 L82 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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