Asia

Copyright law, digital content and the Internet in the Asia-Pacific

Publication date: 
8 May 2008

Copyright law, digital content and the Internet in the Asia-Pacific provides a unique insight into the key issues facing copyright law and digital content policy in a networked information world.

IP Law in Asia - 2007 conference papers

Publication date: 
12 December 2007

Created in China: the great new leap forward

Authors: 
Michael Keane
Publication date: 
30 October 2007

This book examines China’s creative economy — and how television, animation, advertising, design, publishing and digital games are reshaping traditional understanding of culture.

New television, globalization and the East Asian cultural imagination

Authors: 
Michael Keane, (with Anthony Fung and Albert Moran)
Publication date: 
1 July 2007

Challenging assumptions that have underpinned critiques of globalisation and combining cultural theory with media industry analysis, Keane, Fung and Moran give a groundbreaking account of the evolution of television in the post-broadcasting era, and how programming ideas are creatively redeveloped and franchised in East Asia. In this first comprehensive study of television program adaptation across cultures, the authors argue that adaptation, transfer, and recycling of content are multiplying to the point of marginalising other economic and cultural practices.

Globalisation and Resistance: Law Reform in Asia Since the Crisis

Authors: 
Christoph Antons, and V. Gessner
Publication date: 
1 January 2007

In comparing existing research on Eastern and Central Europe, Central Asia and Latin America, it is clear that legal developments in East and South Asian societies are somewhat under-researched.

Intellectual Property Law in Southeast Asia: Recent legislative and institutional developments’

Publication date: 
1 January 2006

Over the last few decades, countries belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) all had to revise their intellectual property systems.