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on intellectual property rights in a knowledge-based economy

 

Useful links

 

EU related regulation and cases

EU legal documents

- Council Directive 91/250/EEC on the legal protection of computer programs (1991)
- Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases (1996)
- Directive 98/44/EC on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions (1998)
- Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonization of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (2001)
- Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (2001)
- IPR and the European Research Area - DG for Research (2002) [Thematic reports and links to the EC related research and activities]


EU selected cases

- Shetland Times v. Wills, U.K. (1996)
- Koninklijke Vermande v. Bojkovski, The Netherlands (1998)
- Algemeen Dagblad and others v. Eureka Internetdiensten, The Netherlands (2000)



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