Intellectual Property and New Technologies

This volume of Law in Context focuses on the legal issues raised by the digital revolution. It presents new perspectives on familiar questions about the effectiveness of intellectual property in promoting innovation and protecting privacy. The articles address such issues as: heritage and cultural property protection in an age of instant reproduction and voracious knowledge exploitation; the difficulties faced by developing nations and by China in dealing with intellectual property; cyberspace and the implications for privacy law; improving the patent system to promote innovation; and copyright and digitisation processes in New Zealand museums. This volume goes beyond conventional wisdom and disciplinary orthodoxy to re-evaluate innovation, communication and law in an era of rapid technological change. Intellectual Property and New Technologies is a special issue (Volume 29 No 1) of the journal Law in Context. You can purchase a single copy of this issue through this page, or subscribe to the journal from the journal page.

1. The Future of Intellectual Property at the Law and Technology Event Horizon by Charles Lawson 2. The Faulty Door of Cyberspace and Implications for Privacy Law by Marc Trabsky, Julian Thomas, Megan Richardson 3. Improving the Patent System to Promote Innovation: An Information Technology Case Study by Natalie P Stoianoff 4. Copyright Norms and Flexibilities and the Digitisation Practices of New Zealand Museums by Susan Corbett 5. At the Crossroads: The Relationship Between Heritage and Intellectual Property in Traditional Knowledge Protection in Southeast Asia by Christoph Antons 6. Talkin’ ‘Bout Law’s Generations: Pop Culture, Intellectual Property and the Interpretation of Case Law by Marett Leiboff 7. History is a Key Decoder: Why China Aims at Re-emerging as a Global Leader of Innovation by Ken Shao

David WishartAfter a brief stint in practice, David completed a Masters by thesis from Melbourne University. During his candidature, he was a tutor in the Legal Studies Department of that institution. He then became a law lecturer in the Department of Accounting at Monash University. In 1986 he joined the Faculty of Law at University Malaya, from whence he moved to the Faculty of Law at the University of Canterbury. During this time he wrote a number of articles on constitutional law and company law in both jurisdictions, including his book, Company Law in Context (1994) in relation to New Zealand company law. He became interested in matters to do with indigenous peoples. In 1993 he joined the then School of Law and Legal Studies (now Law School) at La Trobe University. He has published extensively in corporations law, and to a lesser extent in constitutional law, and law and indigenous peoples. Recently he has entered on a project considering the issues surrounding digital evidence and has been deeply involved in considering competition policy and law from various theoretical perspectives.