Annotated Leading Copyright Cases in Major Asian Jurisdictions

Overview

In this second volume of the Applied Research Center for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia (ARCIALA) series, thirty-seven eminent scholars and practitioners from Asia and the United States have come together to comprehensively assess leading copyright cases from eight major Asian jurisdictions (People’s Republic of China (PRC), India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan). This book contains thirty-six case reports that focus on six topics that reflect the current trends in Asian copyright law—namely, digital copyright, collective copyright (including the management of copyright and the interface between collecting societies and competition law), criminal copyright (with a discussion of criminal punishment for copyright infringement), limits to copyright (such as fair use and exhaustion), the relationship between copyright laws and other forms of protection, and choice of jurisdiction and applicable law in copyright litigation. Each case report deconstructs the legal background, facts, and rationale of the decision in a particular landmark case, and then discusses the commercial or industrial significance and application. Notably, this includes an analysis of The Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements and its adoption in Singapore, which is, to date, the only Asian country to have fully ratified it.

Author Biography

Kung-Chung Liu is the Lee Kong Chian Professor of Law (Practice), founder and director of the Applied Research Center for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia (ARCIALA), School of Law, Singapore Management University. He is also co-appointed by Renmin University of China and Graduate Institute of Technology, Innovation, and Intellectual Property Management, National Chengchi University, Taiwan. Dr. Liu studied law at National Taiwan University and Ludwig-Maximillian-Universität Munich, Germany, and his teaching and research interests include intellectual property law, antitrust and unfair competition law, and communication law.