Présentation de l’éditeur

This collection of essays explores the role intellectual property played in the interwar period and the expansion and protection of intellectual property rights. The geographical scope of the book is global so as to give perspectives from different regions on how intellectual property law developed. The topics covered range from a synopsis of intellectual property in Jewish works confiscated by the Nazis to how intellectual property can be understood as part of the evolution of inventors’ moral rights. This volume’s aim is to develop new narratives on the ideas and structures of intellectual property during the interwar period and on how those ideas and structures were held together by the competing forces of markets, ownership and political ideals of the international legal order at that time.

Contributors are: Michael Blakeney, Enrico Bonadio, Patricia Covarrubia, Christine Haight Farley, Laura Ford, Giacomo Gabbuti, Johanna Gibson, Phillip Johnson, Ekaterina Kirsanova, Anat Lior, P. Sean Morris, Alessandro Nuvolari, Emmanuel Oke, Véronique Pouillard, Akshita Rohatgi, Anele Simon, Caterina Sganga, Noppanun Supasiripongchai, Masabumi Suzuki, and Lior Zemer.

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The Interwar Peacemaking Epoch of International Intellectual Property (1919–1939): Ambiguities and Markets
Author: P. Sean Morris

Part 1 Versailles and Interwar Intellectual Property Relations

Chapter 1 Expropriation of German Patents under the Treaty of Versailles
Author: Michael Blakeney

Chapter 2 Industrial Property as War Policy Tool during and after World War 1
Authors: Enrico Bonadio, Anele Simon, and Akshita Rohatgi

Chapter 3 The Birth of Inventor’s Moral Rights: The 1934 London Conference on the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
Author: Phillip Johnson

Chapter 4 A New Style of National Power: International IP Relations and Unfair Competition in the Interwar Years (1919–1939)
Author: Laura Ford

Part 2 Copyright Fascism, Plunder in Europe and American Trademark Markets

Chapter 5 Furthering Interests Abroad: Advancing Trademark Rights in the Americas in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century
Author: Christine Haight Farley

Chapter 6 When Politics Met Intellectual Property Cooperation in the Pan-American Union
Author: Patricia Covarrubia

Chapter 7 Intellectual Property Rights in Fascist Italy: “Modernisation” and Continuity under Dictatorship
Authors: Giacomo Gabbuti, Caterina Sganga, and Alessandro Nuvolari

Chapter 8 Copyright Aryanization
Authors: Lior Zemer and Anat Lior

Part 3 The Interwar Global World of Intellectual Property Internationalism

Chapter 9 Multinational Enterprises and the Protection of Trademarks in Colonial Nigeria during the Interwar Years
Author: Emmanuel Kolawole Oke

Chapter 10 Intellectual Property Rights in Belgium and in the Congo: Between Internationalism and Colonialism
Author: Véronique Pouillard

Chapter 11 Accession to the Berne Convention in 1931 and the Development of Copyright Law in Thailand
Author: Noppanun Supasiripongchai

Chapter 12 Internationalism to Nationalism: Interwar Japan Observed through the Lens of Copyright Enforcement
Author: Masabumi Suzuki

Chapter 13 IP as Public Property: Early Formation of IP Laws in the Soviet Union
Author: Ekaterina Kirsanova

Part 4 The Emergence of Performers’ Rights

Chapter 14 ‘The Pretension Is Nothing; the Performance Everything’: The Origin of Performers’ Rights and the Creation of the Performer as Artist
Author: Johanna Gibson