We Used to Call It Publishing-New Intellectual Property Pathways

Writing and Publishing Textbooks and Students' Rights from the Perspective of Islam and Intellectual Property Rights

The right to education, as a basic human right, is essential for all members of society, and its realization requires special facilities and tools. Textbooks are considered to be the most important tool that should be provided to learners and students in an appropriate and standard and comprehensive manner, without discrimination and not for profit. The aim of this study was to determine the st...

When Should We Use Intellectual Property Rights?

The economic analysis of property rights proceeds in two steps. The Ž rst distinguishes rival from nonrival goods. The second contrasts the welfare effects of property rights for these two types of goods. For rival goods, strong property rights lead to efŽ cient outcomes. For nonrival goods, property rights involve the trade-off formalized by William Nordhaus (1969): Weak property rights lead t...

Electronic Publishing and the Evolving International Intellectual Property Regime

Electronic commerce has taken off. Whatever concerns about consumer acceptance there were five years ago have given way to “click and mortar” business models where ecommerce has an established role complementing traditional commerce. The digital publishing market segment, approximately $8 billion today, is expected to reach $70 billion by 2004. A significant portion of the GDPs of the industria...

Software Development, Intellectual Property, and IT Security

Does Intellectual Property Lead to Intellectual Property Protection?

Researchers studying the differential commitment of countries to intellectual property rights, often appear to run into the claim that countries with a relatively higher and significantly changing technological base (the developed countries) opt for relatively stronger protection, whereas those with a relatively low and essentially unchanging technological base (the developing countries) opt fo...