Making Copyright Work for the Asian Pacific: Juxtaposing Harmonisation with Flexibility

This

book provides a contemporary overview of developing areas of copyright

law in the Asian Pacific Region. While noting the tendency towards

harmonisation through free trade agreements, the book takes the perspective

that there is a significant amount of potential for the nations of the Asian

Pacific Region to work together, find common ground and shift international

bargaining power. Moreover, in so doing, the region can tailor any regional

agreements to suit local needs. The book addresses the development of norms

in the region and the ways in which this can occur in light of the specific

nature of the creator-owner-user paradigm in the region and the common

interests of Indigenous peoples.