Introduction
… We ask a different question: we explore how well the rhetoric of Brexit comports with the reality and the institutional economics of nation-state lawmaking in an era of global trade and digital communication technologies. We use intellectual property (IP) law as a concrete example. We think it a good context in which to consider the impact of the UK’s exit from the EU. Copyrights are deeply intertwined with culture and education, patents have significant implications for health and safety, and trademark law sets the rules of the road for the marketplace in products and services. What is more, the public, judges, and legislators have come to realize just how much IP law – technical though it may appear – can interfere with access to things that are critical to their lives …
Graeme B Dinwoodie and Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss, Brexit and IP: The Great Unraveling?, Cardozo Law Review Volume 39 Number 3 (February 2018).
First posted 2018-03-19 10:27:15
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