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Publications of IPR University Center

(1) Niklas Bruun ja Mikko Välimäki: Korkeakoulukeksinnöt (2007)
(2) Viveca Still: DRM och upphovsrättens obalans (2007)
(3)Helena Laisi: 75 vuotta teollisoikeudellista yhdistystoimintaa Suomessa (Suomen teollisoikeudellisen yhdistyksen STY:n ja Suomen AIPPIn historiikki)
(4) Tuomas Mylly: Intellectual Property and European Economic Constitutional Law
- The Trouble with Private Informational Power (2009)
(5) In Search of New IP Regimes. Ed. by Niklas Bruun (2010)

IPR University Centerin julkaisuja - Publications of IPR University Center 2

Digital rights management (DRM) systems are increasingly being developed and used in order to protect the commercial interests of copyright holders. The principal research question of this doctoral thesis concerns how copyright’s balance can be restored considering copyright owners’ increased power to control the use, possibly backed up by the legal system.

The author looks into the current regulation of DRM and analyses the shortcomings of the current legislative framework in view of the prospective legal dimensions of DRM. This analysis is followed by an assessment of current suggestions for corrective means in the regulation of DRM, which ends in a regulative model proposed by the author.

The method used in the research is that of legal informatics and information law.
The aim of the thesis is to contribute to the understanding of DRM as an object of regulation within the copyright system and to further the discussion of the proper regulation of digital rights management systems as a part of a balanced copyright regime.

Publications of IPR University Center 5 

The title In Search of New IP Regimes reflects the need to find solutions to the shortcomings of the present intellectual property system on a global level.

The objective of this publication is to document the work by some of the PhD-students from the INNOCENT graduate school, who are working on dissertations related to the developments of international intellectual property issues.

Also, two papers by renowned IPR professors, Graeme Dinwoodie and Thomas Riis, are also included in this book.

Publications of IPR University Center 4 

How is the interaction between intellectual property and competition laws determined? Which laws and principles regulate the economic and informational power based on intellectual property rights?
In the information society, intellectual property rights constitute not only the core strategic assets of firms, but also the instruments of societally relevant power. Intellectual property, competition and fundamental rights laws increasingly participate in constituting the networked information society and its future.
In this timely book, the European system of intellectual property protection is approached from less traditional premises based on European constitutionalism and democratic discourse. European intellectual property and competition laws, their general principles, doctrines of interpretation and interaction constitute the central areas of concretisation.

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