Unlocking Hidden Intellectual Property Value: Do Copyrights Encourage Innovation in the Digital Age?

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Edgell ◽  
Yingzi Xu
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Property Value

Intellectual Property Rights and the Protection of Africa's Traditional Knowledge

2017 ◽  
pp. 122-145
Author(s):  
Benjamin Enahoro Assay
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Piracy ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
The Media

This chapter examines the media, intellectual property rights and the protection of Africa's traditional knowledge in the digital age. It reviews literature on intellectual property, intellectual property rights, the various forms of intellectual property rights and the misappropriation and infringement on intellectual property rights, traditional knowledge, and media in digital age. The chapter provides perspectives on the issues and controversies on the non-protection of traditional knowledge within the existing frameworks of IP system and rules. It points out that the products of Africa's traditional knowledge are in dire need of protection against global competitors and therefore urges African governments to take advantage of the IP rules to negotiate with industrialized countries for the protection of their products. The chapter called for the enactment of tougher legislations to halt the menace of counterfeiting and digital piracy and deliberate use of the media to promote the products. It also made some recommendations that would help Africa defend its IP.

Intellectual Property and the Historian in the New Millennium

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-48
Author(s):  
Gerald Herman
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Public History ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
National Council ◽  
Roundtable Discussion ◽  
New Millennium

On April 12, 2002, a roundtable discussion was held during the joint National Council on Public History/Organization of American Historians annual meetings in Washington D.C. This roundtable, “Intellectual Property and the Historian in the New Millennium,” addressed issues of copyright for public historians as authors and users in the digital age, when the technologies of reproduction and dissemination have exploded and Congress has struggled to keep up. Roundtable chair Gerald Herman summarizes the challenges faced by public historians in the new millennium and introduces a transcript of the roundtable discussion.

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