I think, intellectual property law is one of the most dynamic institutes in every single legal system. There are «old» provisions of international agreement, which were adopted a lot of years ago. Of course, every country has its legislation, which, I think, details the international provisions. But there is a problem, which is a result of impossibility to regulate (more exactly to protect) social relations which exist in the relation of the intellectual property, because every single legal act of a state has only basic (or abstract) provision. For example, what should I understand by definition «literary and artistic works»? At the first sight, it’s easy to answer, but in legal practice we have to identify this term. If we don’t do it rightly, how we can protect rights. I think, it’s one of the problems, which depends on the correctness of the interpretation of legal norms.
What about other challenges, there is a big problem with protecting intellectual rights on the internet. I think almost everybody knows about www.twirpx.com, which has a lot of works. You can choose any topic you’re interested in. But at the first sight it’s understandable that this web-site breaks intellectual rights, but it’s still working. Of course, this web-site is very useful for everybody, but there is other side of these relations. Almost nobody gave a consent to publish books. It’s a modern challenge to intellectual property law, which can’t protect every author until he/she either address the owner of the web-site which has his/her book, which everybody can download or sue to a court for redress.
Also I think there can be new objects intellectual property law. I don’t know what it’s going to be, but in historical dimension we can see that system and structure of intellectual property law are always changed.
Of course, there are more challenges, but mentioned above are, I think, the most actual.
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