Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Digital Technologies

Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property series

Edited by Tanya Aplin, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, UK

This Handbook provides a scholarly and comprehensive account of the multiple converging challenges that digital technologies present for intellectual property (IP) rights, from the perspectives of international, EU and US law. Despite the fast-moving nature of digital technology, this Handbook provides profound reflections on the underlying normative legal dilemmas, identifying future problems and suggesting how digital IP issues should be dealt with in the future.

‘This Research Handbook covers a wide range of digital technologies, from the perspective of the different areas of intellectual property. It certainly achieves its goal to set out the relationships between those technologies and the current law, whilst also identifying future challenges and areas for further research. This book is therefore an essential read for scholars and researchers in the area of digital IP.’
– Hayleigh Bosher, IPKat

‘The Research Handbook provides a useful guide to IP issues arising in relation to a wide range of digital technologies. Given the focus of the book on the law in the European Union and the United States, the volume will be of practical relevance to practitioners, academics and policy makers with interest in the experience of the European Union and the United States in dealing with IP issues arising in relation to digital technologies.’
– Evana Wright, Intellectual Property Forum Journal

‘Digital technologies inevitably live with IP rights that protect them or stand in their way. This Research Handbook features an excellent line-up of renowned scholars, who each examine different digital phenomena through the lens of a particular IP right. The chapters are written with practical relevance and scholarly rigour, making it a useful resource for academics, legal practitioners, and other IP enthusiasts.’
– Stef van Gompel, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

‘Professor Aplin’s very timely Research Handbook spans the entire spectrum of relevant intellectual property rights as well as unfair competition law, competition law and enforcement of intellectual property rights. Its comprehensiveness is enhanced by the great cast of authors from different jurisdictions. A must-read for all those interested in contemporary and hugely important digital issues affecting intellectual property law.’
– Estelle Derclaye, University of Nottingham, UK