With the launch of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, its Agreement on Trade-
Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) emerged as a symbol of coercion in …

In Globalising Intellectual Property Rights, Matthews looks at various aspects of the TRIPS
Agreement: agenda-setting, legal interpretation, implementation, enforcement and revision …

" In the wake of intense globalisation and commercialisation in the 1990s, China saw the
emergence of a vibrant popular culture. Drawing on sixteen years of research, Jeroen de …

In January 2012, millions participated in the now-infamous “Internet blackout” against the
Stop Online Piracy Act, protesting the power it would have given intellectual property holders …

About a decade ago, intellectual property started getting systematically treated as a national
security threat to the United States. The scope of the threat is broadly conceived to include …

Stefan Larsson's Conceptions in the Code makes a significant contribution to sociolegal
analysis, representing a valuable contribution to conceptual metaphor theory. By utilising the …

To curb unauthorized downloading, the major media corporations have developed
education campaigns aimed at children. This essay interrogates these campaigns in terms …

Since the 1990s there has been a dramatic increase in cultural flows and connections
between the countries in the East Asian region. Nowhere is this more apparent than when …

If Elvis Presley were alive today, he would just be in the way. The contradictions and
appetites of a living Presley would surely jeopardize the simplified image of Elvis that has …

The article uses conceptual metaphor theory to analyse how the concept of “copy” in
copyright law is expanding in a digital society to cover more phenomena than originally …