Intellectual property (magazine)

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Intellectual property was a legal journal that existed from 1935 to 1940. It was also called the International Journal for Theory and Practice of Copyright Law and its Dependencies .

Story and content

The magazine was first published in 1935 by Verlag für Recht und Gesellschaft AG in Zurich and was founded by Paul Tuesday after he was dismissed as editor of the Archive for Copyright, Film and Theater Law (UFITA) due to his Jewish origins in Germany . Many of the permanent employees of the magazine were also German legal scholars of Jewish origin. Initially, Hans Leemann and Paul Tuesday acted as editors, from issue 3 of the second volume the Dutch professor Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy took Leemann's place. From June / July 1937, the Leipzig lawyer Rudolf M. Littauer, who emigrated there, was responsible for receiving contributions from the USA . The international workforce of the magazine - the employees in the respective countries were e.g. Some prominent representatives of their field - shows that after the internationalization of property rights in the second half of the 19th century , the area of intellectual property rights had long been a cross-border field of work. In 1937 they switched to publishing house A. W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij N.V., Leiden (Netherlands) and renamed the magazine to “Copyright” in 1938 from the second issue with continuous year counting.

The magazine appeared about every two months and wanted to advocate the further development of the protection for works of intellectual or artistic creation, whereby "above all the interests of the general public" should be taken into account. The essays in the magazine dealt mainly with questions of copyright, but there were also contributions and notes on patent, trademark and competition law. Reports on current case law and book reviews from all areas of intellectual property rounded off the magazine. Again and again, articles dealt with the effects of National Socialist politics on the cultural industry and copyright law in Germany.

The magazine had an international focus: every longer article was followed by a summary in German, English and French, unless the article was written in one of these languages. The jurisprudence section brought together decisions from all over the world, sorted by countries of the Bern Convention and non- convention states . The German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940 ended the magazine project.

How to quote

Due to the low distribution, no abbreviation has been established for the journal. The following short forms are regularly used for the relatively rare quotations:

  • Littauer , Intellectual Property 3 (1937/1938), 217 ff. Refers to the article by Rudolf M. Littauer on The Present Legal Status of Artists, Recorders and Broadcasters in America , published in the 3rd volume of the magazine (1937/1938) from p. 217.
  • Hess , Copyright 4 (1938/1939), 183 ff., However, refers to the article by Gabriel L. Hess on the subject of Copyrightability of Acoustic Works in the United States , published in the 4th volume of the journal (1938/1939) after the renaming P. 183.

literature

  • Simon Apel, Matthias Wießner: The magazine "Intellectual Property - Copyright - La Propriété Intellectuelle" (1935-1940). In: Journal for Intellectual Property ( ZGE ) 2 (2010) 1, pp. 89–103
  • Manfred Rehbinder : Copyright and media law literature in emigration: about the work and fate of Paul Tuesday. In: Archive for Copyright and Media Law (UFITA) 2008 / II, pp. 465–478

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Intellectual property - Copyright - La Propriété Intellectuelle. International journal for the theory and practice of copyright law and its subsidiary areas ”from 1938“ Copyright - Intellectual Property - La Propriété Intellectuelle. International Review of the Protection of Literary, Artistic and Industrial Property "
  2. ^ About him Manfred Rehbinder: Copyright and media law literature in emigration: about the work and fate of Paul Tuesday. In: Archive for Copyright and Media Law (UFITA) 2008 / II, pp. 465–478
  3. ^ AW Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij NV Leiden 1851-1951, Leiden 1950.
  4. ↑ Paul Abel et al. a .: In: Intellectual property 1 (1935/1936), 1, 4.