Mark Anderson, ‘Copyright licences and private law: fitting a sharp-edged peg into a worn-smooth hole’

Implied Licences in Copyright Law by Poorna Mysoor, Oxford University Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-19-885819-5, hard cover, pp 368. Price: £80. Transactional intellectual property (IP) law is an underresearched subject. It is slowly emerging from the shadows cast by traditional IP topics: subsistence, validity and infringement. Why would this be? A young IP academic enlightened the author some weeks ago. He commented that very few leading UK law faculties do research on private law subjects, with the notable exception of Oxford. The author remembered the list of authors of Chitty on Contracts, many of whom are Oxford academics. This issue is not confined to transactional IP …

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Mark Anderson, Copyright licences and private law: fitting a sharp-edged peg into a worn-smooth hole, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpab135. Published: 3 December 2021.

First posted 2021-12-08 14:00:01

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