Following the successful launch of the Information Law Series Archive in September 2024, ten more volumes have now been made freely available online on the IViR website.
These include groundbreaking dissertations by Martin Senftleben (on copyright and the three-step test), Natali Helberger (on regulating conditional access), Mireille van Eechoud (on applicable law in copyright), and Ashwin van Rooijen (on software copyright and competition law).
Other volumes made available online are two rich essay collections exploring the interface between copyright and the public domain: The Commodification of Information (on the ‘propertization’ of information) and its counterpoint The Future of the Public Domain (on the commons in information law).
Also included in the archive are IViR’s comprehensive study on the harmonization of European copyright law, as well as Irini Katsirea’s comparative study of public broadcasting rules in Europe. The archive also incorporates the first two editions of Paul Torremans’ monumental collection on the intersection between intellectual property and human rights,
The Information Law Series, which was established in 1991, is the world’s first and foremost academic book series in the field of information law and policy. Publications in the series are aimed not only at scholars and advanced students, but also at practitioners and policy makers who are active in this rapidly expanding field. Since 1991, forty-eight volumes were published in the series, covering a vast and constantly growing range of current issues.
To celebrate the series’ success, and to make volumes in the series more accessible to scholars, students and other interested readers, Kluwer Law International has agreed to make older volumes freely available online. More volumes in the Series will be added to the online archive in due course.
A complete listing of all volumes published in the series is available here. All books in the series remain in print and can be purchased from the Wolters Kluwer web store.