"Preface" [2012] ELECD 190; in Rosén, Jan (ed), "Individualism and Collectiveness in Intellectual Property Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: Individualism and Collectiveness in Intellectual Property Law

Editor(s): Rosén, Jan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857938978

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Preface
The programme of the 29th ATRIP Congress, held in Stockholm 24­26
May 2010, worked under a chapeau of Individualism and Collectiveness
in Intellectual Property Law. This heading allowed an extraordinary
advanced academic gathering ­ some fifty prominent law professors were
on the podium during the congress ­ to embrace fundamental, eternal and
yet very contemporary elements in IP Law that they deal with in teaching
and research. The emphasis was put on classic IP Law values embedded
in the protection of human efforts and the creativeness of individuals, and
at the same time the speakers were deploying the intrinsic phenomena of
our times that lie in the enhancement of individual creativeness in a collec-
tive setting as well as the tendencies to build national, regional or global
monopolies based on IP Rights. The respect for original ownership, the
occasional need for collective management of IP Rights, the idiosyncra-
sies of co-ownership of rights and the ever-present tension to be found in
encounters between exploitation of IP Rights and Competition Law were
all dealt with in the arena of the scientific programme of the 2010 ATRIP
Congress. This book reflects the centre field of the many aspects brought
to the audience.




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