Drafts and ideas

Below you can find some random draft articles and ideas about possible future topics. If you have interest or insight into these issues, please drop a line and let's see where it all lands.

• Is the Existence of Intellectual Property a Valid Anti-Trust Excuse? This one would criticize the assumption in current competition law policy that the holding of IPRs is never anti-competitive as such and only in some rare circumstances the use of (or the refusal to use) IPRs can be held anti-competitive. Would build on the Microsoft case.
  
• Interoperability and Patent Law. One obvious article topic, about the endless discussion on patents in standards etc.
  
• Interoperability and Trademark Law. Another article topic, extending the discussion to trademarks.
  

• Internet Piracy. This would be a popularized book about the history of the endless war against digital copying among users and various copy protection systems.
  

• Introducing Class Actions in Finland - Lawmaking Without Economic Analysis. A comparative take on the past, present and future of class action lawsuits in Finland in a European context.
• Data Retention and the Future of Privacy in Europe. This would discuss data retention from civil society's perspective.
  

• Mapping the Public Domain. This would aim at a broad definition of the public domain and suggest ways to measure its size and relevance.
  
• Highway to Internet Censorship in Europe. A documentation of recent events and trends with some analysis...
  
• Social Software and Approriability. Would discuss how social software changes the appropriabiltiy behavior of cultural content creators, especially musicians.
  
• University Inventions and Open Source. A potential spin-off article from the book. Would discuss how GPL-style anti-patent provisions - and non-patentable technology in general - can be combined with recent laws and standard research agreements pushing for more patents.
  
• Commercial Use in Copyright Law. A spin-off article from the open content book. Can one effectively use "non-commercial" license provisions for business purposes.
• Civil and Criminal Liability for Copyright Infringement in Nordic Countries. Would discuss European (especially Finnish and other Nordic countries) approach on secondary copyright liability.
  
• A Modern Introduction to Intellectual Property Law. This would be a text book from an European perspective with special emphasis on information technology.
  
• Comparative Intellectual Property Law. A textbook treatise that would compare the details of US and European intellectual property laws.
  
• Scope of IPRs ex ante. Would compare originality doctrine (copyright), novelty doctrine (patent), and distinctiveness doctrine (trademark).
  
• Scope of IPRs ex post. Would compare similarity doctrine (copyright), equivalence doctrine (patent), and confusion doctrine (trademark).
  
• Shared Ownership of IPRs. What the title suggests...
  
• The Cultural History of Copyright. This one would analyze and compare the evolution of copyright systems in Soviet Union (Russia), China, United States and Europe (France).
  
• A History of Copyright in Finland. This would be a short book / lengthy article on the history of copyright law and legal policy in Finland.