
	Law and Politics Reference: Voinikanis E.A. General legal tendency towards decentralization of regulation and intellectual rights // Law and Politics. 2015. № 2. P. 175-179. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=52361 Voinikanis E.A. General legal tendency towards decentralization of regulation and intellectual rights Abstract: The subject of this research is the implementation of the general legal tendency towards decentralization of regulation in the area of intellectual rights. The relevance of this topic is substantiated by the demand for various forms of soft law and self-regulation within the framework of globalization and development of information society. The article presents an analysis of the examples of soft regulation within international law of intellectual property. It reveals the effects of the non-obligatory acts of international organizations upon the forming of the positions on relevant issues and development of new normative acts. The author’s conclusions are based on discovered aspects of the decentralization process within the law on intellectual property. The peculiarity of self-regulation in the area of intellectual rights lies in the weak development of voluntary agreements between right holders and the information intermediaries. This is caused by the use of provisions of the dominant paradigm of intellectual rights within the agreements. Keywords: Information intermediary, soft law, intellectual property, legal paradigm, intellectual property rights, selfregulation, decentralization, copyright holder, international law, free licenses. This article can be downloaded freely in PDF format for reading. Download article This article written in Russian. You can find original text of the article here . References 1. Tikhomirov Yu.A. Samoregulirovanie: sposoby i granitsy pravovo-go regulirovaniya. // VIII Mezhdunarodnaya nauchnaya konferentsiya. Modernizatsiya ekonomiki i obshchestvennoe razvitie: V 3 kn. Kn. 3. M.: Izdatel'skiy dom GU-VShE, 2007. C.461-470. 2. Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development: Development Agendas in a Changing World. Eds. Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, Pedro Roffe. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009. S.52. 3. Joint recommendation concerning provisions on the protection of well-known marks. WIPO. 1999. Doc. №, 833(E). 4. Joint Recommendation Concerning Provisions on the Protection of Marks, and Other Industrial Property Rights in Signs, on the Internet. WIPO. 2001. Doc. № 845(E). 5. Draft Joint Recommendation Concerning Provisions on the Protection of Country Names. Proposal by the Delegation of Jamaica. WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications. Doc. № SCT/31/4. Thirty-First Session. Geneva, March 17 to 21, 2014. 6. Hugenholtz P. B., Okediji R. Conceiving an International Instrument on Li-mitations and Exceptions to Copyright. Final Report. Institute for Informa-tion Law Research Paper No. 2012-37. Amsterdam, 2008. P.49. 7. Helfer L.R., Austin G.W. Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface. Cambridge University Press, 2011. P.56. 8. International Governance and Law: State Regulation and Non-state. Eds. Hanneke Van Schooten, Jonathan Verschuuren. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008. P.144-145. 9. Memorandum of Understanding on the sale of Counterfeit Goods over the Internet. [Elektronnyy resurs]. Rezhim dostupa: URL: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/iprenforcement/docs/memorandum_04052011_en.pdf (Data obrashcheniya: 27.01.2015) 10. Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on a Single Market for Intellectual Property Rights Boosting creativity and innovation to provide economic growth, high quality jobs and first class products and services in Europe. Brussels, 24.5.2011. COM(2011) 287 final. P.19.

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