User Generated Law

Edited by Thomas Riis, Professor, Centre for Information and Innovation Law (CIIR), University of Copenhagen, Denmark

• Contents:Preface1. User Generated Law. Re-constructing Intellectual Property Law in a Knowledge SocietyThomas Riis2. Information Abundance and Knowledge CommonsMichael J. Madison3. Collective Agreements for the Clearance of Copyrights – The Case of Collective Management and Extended Collective LicensesThomas Riis, Ole-Andreas Rognstad and Jens Schovsbo4. Emerging Models for Cross-border Online LicensingSebastian Felix Schwemer5. Open Source LicensesHenrik Udsen6. IP Coordination Models: Revealing some of the “Magic” behind Patent Pools and Clearinghouses?Esther van Zimmeren7. More competition-law-FRANDly IPR policies: A Solution to SSOs’ Problems of Self-governance?Olga Kokoulina and Timo Minssen8. “The Rise of Standardization and the Limits of Self-Governance”: Unilateral Conduct under International Standards from an EU Competition Law PerspectiveBjörn Lundqvist9. The Private Legal Governance of Domain NamesJens Schovsbo10. Private Enforcement of IP Law by Internet Service Providers: Notice and Action ProceduresClement Salung Petersen and Thomas RiisIndex

‘User Generated Law contains fascinating insights into how models of self-regulation in the IP sector have developed, and how they operate within the State enacted framework. The authors take a number of case studies within different IP fields including collective management and extended collective licenses, cross-border online licensing, patent pools and clearinghouses, and domain names to examine what forces are at play that encourage the emergence of 'autonomy spaces', spaces that the authors argue are present where public policy considerations play only a small role in the overall framework. It is in these spaces that the self-regulatory models can thrive. This book contains thought-provoking contributions that should cause the reader to review our IP framework and to re-think how user-generated law might operate to the benefit of the stakeholders.'