Intellectual Property

Legislation and case law

Legislation

• LegislationNZ
• New Zealand Legislation - NZ Acts, Bills and Regulations are available free, and downloadable
• Intellectual property law and regulations - from NZ Government Online

Case law

• Decisions and Practice guidelines of the Commissioner of Patents, Trade Marks and Designs: (select 'Information Library' from menu)
• NZLII has decisions:   Designs (1958 onwards), Patents (1957 onwards) and Trade Marks (1955 onwards)

Treaties, Conventions and Declarations

• Berne Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works
• Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization
• Mataatua Declaration on cultural and intellectual property rights of indigenous peoples
• Rome Convention for the protection of performers, producers of phonograms and broadcasting organizations
• WIPO Copyright Treaty
• The TRIPS Agreement : Trade related aspects of intellectual property rights
• UN Declaration on the rights of of indigenous peoples
• WIPO-administered treaties

Government and organisations

• Copyright Council of New Zealand
• IPONZ - Intellectual Property Office of NZ - includes the Plant Variety Rights Office
• Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc

Commentary

Indigenous

• Australian Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts includes a page on Natural and cultural heritage
• California Native American Heritage Commission
• Center for World Indigenous Studies
• "Indigenous cultural and intellectual property Rights - a digital library context" article by Robert Sullivan, D-Lib Magazine Vol. 8 No.5, May 2002. ISSN 1082-9873
• Māori intellectual property rights - list of sources from Wellington City Libraries
• Traditional knowledge, genetic resources and traditional cultural expressions/folklore - a WIPO forum

General

• Ministry of Economic Development site includes Copyright protection in New Zealand and information on  Intellectual property
• Trade mark protection in New Zealand

Other jurisdictions

Global

• Intellectual property digital library -  use the menu on the left to search under specific categories
• Intellectual property index - from WorldLII
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Australia

• Australian Copyright Council
• Australian Libraries' Copyright Committee
• IP Australia
• Commonwealth Copyright Administration - Attorney-General's department
• Intellectual property law - from the Parliamentary Library
• WebLaw - Intellectual property

Canada

• A guide to protecting intellectual property - Canadian University Intellectual Property Group
• Canadian Intellectual Property Office
• Centre for Intellectual Property Policy - McGill University
• IP Menu - has links to Canadian IP sources

Europe

• European Patent Office

United Kingdom

• Intellectual Property Office

United States

• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Copyright and fair use - comprehensive site on US copyright law, from Stanford University Libraries
• Copyright and Intellectual Property policies - from the Association of Research Libraries
• Intellectual property - from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University
• United States Patent and Trademark Office