Staff + Student LoginIntellectual Property
Page Contents:
Legislation and
case law |
Treaties and
conventions |
Government and
organisations |
Commentary |
Other jurisdictions
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
United Kingdom
United States
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the US Department of Justice
- 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
