Book contents
- Across Intellectual Property
- Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
- Frontispiece
- Across Intellectual Property
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Across Regimes
- Part II Across Jurisdictions
- 6 People Not Machines
- 7 Australian Legislation Abroad
- 8 ‘The Berne Convention Is Our Ideal’
- 9 A Future of International Copyright?
- 10 ‘Trade-Related’ after All?
- 11 Intellectual Property, Innovation and New Space Technology
- 12 Intellectual Property and Private International Law
- Part III Across Disciplines
- Part IV Across Professions
- Laudatio
- Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
9 - A Future of International Copyright?
Berne and the Front Door Out
from Part II - Across Jurisdictions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 March 2020
- Across Intellectual Property
- Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
- Frontispiece
- Across Intellectual Property
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Across Regimes
- Part II Across Jurisdictions
- 6 People Not Machines
- 7 Australian Legislation Abroad
- 8 ‘The Berne Convention Is Our Ideal’
- 9 A Future of International Copyright?
- 10 ‘Trade-Related’ after All?
- 11 Intellectual Property, Innovation and New Space Technology
- 12 Intellectual Property and Private International Law
- Part III Across Disciplines
- Part IV Across Professions
- Laudatio
- Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
Summary
The Berne Convention was intended to be regularly revised, but we've now gone almost half a century with no substantive change - and it is looking increasingly unlikely to ever be changed again. But as the world radically transforms around it, Berne’s superseded structures continue to be locked in and given teeth by TRIPS. This chapter explores the practical extent of that lock-in, and provocatively argues that we may soon reach a point where rational countries choose to take Berne’s ‘front door out’: to exercise their rights to domestically depart from its minima to reach a more satisfactory copyright bargain for their authors and the broader public.
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- Across Intellectual PropertyEssays in Honour of Sam Ricketson, pp. 116 - 128Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020