International Law,
Intellectual Property
Feb. 28, 2019
A sea change for protecting IP online
The European Union seems poised to balance the rights of online service providers and intellectual property owners very differently from the United States.
Mark S. Lee
Rimon PCEmail: mark.lee@rimonlaw.com
Univ of Illinois COL; Champaign IL
Mark is also adjunct professor of intellectual Property and entertainment law at the USC Gould School of Law, and the author of "Entertainment and Intellectual Property Law" (Thomson Reuters 2018).
Information wants to be free, but intellectual property wants to be protected. The tension between this durable cliché and fundamental principle has informed much of the political and legal debate surrounding the commercial rise of the internet over the past 25 years.
This debate is presently centered in Europe, where the European Union seems poised to balance the rights of online service providers and intellectual property owners v...
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