• The rise and fall of design copyright-- the road to reform-- the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988-- the European future.
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Available by subscription or individually through bookshops, "The Hume Papers on Public Policy", a quarterly journal, replaces the series of short monographs previously published by the David Hume Institute under the general title of "The Hume Papers". The journal is a forum for the publication of research on issues of public policy with especial reference to legal and economic aspects. Each issue deals with topical subjects in an accessible and scholarly way, and some are thematically linked. This volume of the journal updates the story of copyright, design and patents. It relates the history and assesses the limitations of copyright law from its inception in 1709, through the 1959 and 1988 Acts, to the present day. Detailing some of the seminal cases in the development of copyright law, this is a jargon-free and comprehensive guide to a complex area of law. The work is intended for students and lawyers specializing in intellectual property and competition.
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This volume is part of a series of short books which deal with topical issues in public policy in an accessible way. "Privacy and Property" presents essays on aspects of the law relating to privacy and property. Chapters examine the right of privacy, property rights in the human body and regulation of trade in human organs, the future of intellectual property, and aspects of privacy and property from an economist's perspective. Contributors include W.R. Cornish, Antony Dnes, Martin Hogg, Alexander McCall Smith and Hector MacQueen.
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This is an issue of our quarterly journal Hume Papers on Public Policy - the journal of the David Hume Institute.
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