Essential Facilities and Appropriate Remuneration of Achievements

Essential Facilities and Appropriate Remuneration of Achievements
Anselm Kamperman Sanders

ISBN 1–84113–571–2
Hart Publishing

The “commons” are under threat, or at least that is what many commentators would like us to believe.1 It is said that the traditional balance underpinning the Intellectual Property Law system is disturbed by encroachments
on the public domain and traditional liberties are reduced to window-dressing to obscure the unbridled expansion of property rights benefiting only big industry. This is a nice mantra, but some critical observations are in
order. Whereas the level of IP protection has undoubtedly increased on a worldwide level, so has piracy.