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IP Law in Asia

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The project IP in Asia serves the need to understand the legal and regulatory environment in our immediate region, especially as it relates to IP. It focuses on the interrelationship between IP law, related regulation and the growing creator and consumer sectors in digital content in Asia, emphasising China and ASEAN.

Progress in 2010
During 2010, Antons published three articles. He finalised the editing of “The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: Comparative Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region”. This book is now in print and will be published by Kluwer in the Max Planck Series on Asian Intellectual Property Law. Four book chapters are also in print as part of this and other projects. Antons organised an international CCI workshop on “Recent Developments in Intellectual Property Law in Southeast Asia” with participants from nine countries in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute, Munich. He presented eleven papers at conferences/seminars in Australia (UOW, Swinburne, ANU), Thailand (Chiang Mai), Indonesia (Bali), Singapore (National University of Singapore), USA (Chicago) and Taiwan (Academia Sinica). He received a grant from the UOW Institute for Social Transformation Research for a project on “Towards a Treaty on Traditional Knowledge: Lessons from National Regulatory Models in Indonesia and the Philippines”.

Plans for 2011
During 2011, Antons will present papers at an international workshop on “International Trade in Indigenous Cultural Heritage: Legal and Policy Issues” at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland and at a seminar of the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn, Germany. He will continue the editing of books currently under contract and in preparation for publication by Kluwer, Ashgate and Edward Elgar: “Intellectual Property Law in Southeast Asia”, “Law in East Asia: Socio-legal Issues” and “Intellectual Property Chapters in Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region”. He is invited to contribute to book projects edited at the Academia Sinica, Max Planck Institute Munich, National University of Singapore, University of Melbourne, Drake University and University of Lucerne. During the second half of 2011, Antons will organise an international IP workshop at UOW.

Impact

Antons’ book chapter on ‘Copyright Law Reform and the Information Society in Indonesia’ has been translated into Indonesian and will be published in Media HKI, an intellectual property journal edited at the Directorate General of Intellectual Property Rights in Indonesia. He was invited to contribute to a special Southeast Asia issue of Biodiversity and Conservation. He was an invited speaker at the 4th Conference on European and Asian Intellectual Property Rights in Taipei, the Australia-Netherlands Research Collaboration Workshop on “Indigenous peoples and natural resource management” in Seminyak (Bali) and at a Research Symposium on ‘The new law of brands & reputation in the Asia-Pacific Rim’ organised by the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, the Law Faculty of the National University of Singapore and the IP Academy Singapore.

New Knowledge Generated
Antons’ publications on traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions in Southeast Asia have pointed to complicated cross-border problems, if knowledge is linked to certain communities and geographical regions. The edited IP enforcement in Asia book, which is in print, brings a discussion of recent legislative and policy changes and their impact in practice. It also provides an outlook on the likely effects of most recent initiatives such as the plurilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

Project News

Justice Douglas launches cutting edge new research

A new book, edited by Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Professor Fuping Gao, Mr Damien O’Brien and Mr Sampsung Xiaoxiang Shi, focuses geographically on the Asia-Pacific, and particularly on China and Australia, but addresses universal themes about the law of copyright and its adaptation to the Internet in the 21st century said the Hon Justice Douglas at the launch in Brisbane yesterday.

CCI launches new look at copyright law in the Asia-Pacific

A new book has been launched by current and former researchers from QUT’s Intellectual Property: Knowledge Culture Economy program led by Professor Brian Fitzgerald. Copyright law, digital content and the Internet in the Asia-Pacific, edited by Brian Fitzgerald, Fuping Gao, Damien O'Brien and Sampsung Xiaoxiang Shi, provides a unique insight into the key issues facing copyright law and digital content policy in a networked information world.

Plans for 2008

Professor Antons will organise a further annual workshop on IP in Asia at the University of Wollongong in December 2008, as well as completing his book on Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expressions and Intellectual Property Law in the Asia Pacific Region, which is under contract with Kluwer Law International. He will also be working on three further book projects. The first is a Research Handbook on intellectual property law in Southeast Asia, which is under contract with Edward Elgar; the second is an edited volume on IP Enforcement in Asia, which will be offered to Kluwer Law International; and the third is the new edition of his book on Indonesian intellectual property law. Several other book chapters and articles are also in print.

Progress in 2007

During 2007, Professor Antons published one edited book and several book chapters, articles and working papers, as well as working on an edited volume resulting from a workshop in December 2006.

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