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.
