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Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice Advance Access originally published online on July 2, 2009
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 2009 4(8):600-601; doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpp104
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© The Author (2009). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

IP in Review

A heroic book

Jane Ginsburg*
International Copyright Law and Policy
Silke von Lewinski
Oxford University Press, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-920720-6, Hard cover, pp. 480
Price: £80.00

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

‘A book may be good for nothing; or there may be only one thing in it worth knowing; are we to read it all through?’ (Samuel Johnson)

This section is dedicated to the review of ideas, articles, books, films and other media. It will include replies (and rejoinders) to articles, the evaluation of new ideas or proposals, and reviews of books and articles both directly and indirectly related to intellectual property law.

This is a heroic book: it concisely covers a vast amount of material, past present, and a few speculations about the future. In one volume, Dr von Lewinski gives us primers on the evolution and rules of the main copyright conventions and of the inclusion (incursion?) of copyright . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Correspondence: * Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, Columbia Law School. Email: ginsburg@law.columbia.edu


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