The dissertation comprises of two chapters that use applied econometric techniques to analyze policy related questions that have implications for educational outcomes and one chapter that assesses factors that influence foreign direct investment inflows. In the first chapter I study the impact of equity premiums on the completion numbers of minority students. In the second chapter I assess the impact that state funding cuts for higher education may have on completion numbers across racial and ethnic lines. For the last chapter I study the relationship between intellectual property rights and foreign direct investmentFor chapter one, I study the impact that equity premiums inclusion in performance-based funding models have on the completion numbers of minority students. Using a combination of administrative data over the period 2004 to 2018 with two-way fixed effects methods, I investigate the impact of the premiums on completion numbers of Black, Hispanic, and Native American students. My estimates show that in the short run (up to 2 years post-policy) there are no changes in the completion numbers of at-risk students in adopting and non-adopting states. Secondly, there is heterogeneity in policy effects across ethnicity, in particular Hispanic student completion numbers decrease in adopting states. Thirdly, public institutions become more selective in their admissions of at-risk students post-policy, which may lead to the overall null effects I establish. For chapter two, I investigate whether there exist variations in how state funding cuts for higher education may impact on completion numbers across racial and ethnic lines. Combining administrative data from 1997 to 2018 with two-stage least squares methodology, I test how institutional state funding instrumented by total state funding may influence completion numbers across racial categories. I find that changes in state funding have no significant impact on the completion numbers for each racial category of students. For chapter three, I extend Spatz and Nunnenkamp’s (2003) analysis by using a panel dataset to determine a causal relationship between intellectual property right (IPR) protections and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. Using a fixed-effects Poisson model my results shows that IPR is a causal determinant of FDI within the manufacturing industry. My study concludes that as a country improves their IPR protections, the positive impact on FDI within the manufacturing industry, increases at a decreasing rate. / Economics

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Recent research approaches in semantics based video content analysis require shot boundary detection as the first step to divide video sequences into sections. Furthermore, with the advances in networking and computing capability, efficient retrieval of multimedia data has become an important issue. Content-based retrieval technologies have been widely implemented to protect intellectual property rights (IPR). In addition, automatic recognition of highlights from videos is a fundamental and challenging problem for content-based indexing and retrieval applications. In this thesis, a paradigm is proposed to segment, retrieve and interpret digital videos. Five algorithms are presented to solve the video segmentation task. Firstly, a simple shot cut detection algorithm is designed for real-time implementation. Secondly, a systematic method is proposed for shot detection using content-based rules and FSM (finite state machine). Thirdly, the shot detection is implemented using local and global indicators. Fourthly, a context awareness approach is proposed to detect shot boundaries. Fifthly, a fuzzy logic method is implemented for shot detection. Furthermore, a novel analysis approach is presented for the detection of video copies. It is robust to complicated distortions and capable of locating the copy of segments inside original videos. Then, iv objects and events are extracted from MPEG Sequences for Video Highlights Indexing and Retrieval. Finally, a human fighting detection algorithm is proposed for movie annotation.

Habilitacijai teikiami mokslo darbai, susiję su dviem tyrimų sritimi – autorių teisių ir kitų intelektinės nuosavybės teisių apsaugos ir gynimo teoriniais ir praktiniais aspektais. Teikiamuose mokslo darbuose, remiantis kitų valstybių, Lietuvos doktrina ir teismų praktika analizuojama ir aiškinama teisinio reguliavimo novelų esmė, pateikiamos tam tikro instituto ar dalyko fundamentalios žinios ir vertinimai. Atsižvelgiant į tai, kad, ypač intelektinės nuosavybės teisės srityje, dauguma analizuotų klausimų susiję su Europos Sąjungos ar tarptautinės teisės aktų nuostatų įgyvendinimu vidaus teisėje, analizuojami šio įgyvendinimo rezultatai, nagrinėjamos atitinkamų nuostatų turinys ir taikymo galimybės, atskleidžiamos tinkamo ir netinkamo teisės taikymo atvejai, doktrininiu aiškinimu šalinamos esamos teisinio reguliavimo ar teisės taikymo spragos arba klaidos. Taip pat iškeliamos tam tikros teisės politikos formavimo, vystymo ir strategijos kryptys bei problemos, orientuojantis į racionalumo ir apsaugos funkcionalumo kriterijus. Tyrimuose didelę reikšmę turi istorinis, lyginamasis, teleologinis tyrimų metodai. Didelę reikšmę teikiamuose darbuose turi monografija apie autorių teisę, kurioje sistemiškai nagrinėjami pagrindiniai principai, šaltiniai, objektai, subjektai, asmeninės neturtinės teisės ir turtinės teisės bei jų apribojimai. Remiantis droit d‘ auteure tradicija, autorių teisės paskirtis ir pagrindinė funkcija yra reguliuoti trejopo pobūdžio interesų konfliktus ir rasti... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The subject matter of the scientific studies comprises a study of key issues of the protection of copyright as well as enforcement of other intellectual property rights. The basic methods of study used in the works are comparative, historical and teleological. The model of legal regulation of the protection of intellectual property rights chosen is the one existing in the states of droit d’ auteur and copyright systems, and based on this model the key issues of copyright protection are analysed by way of comparing and assessing the aspects provided for in the Lithuanian legislation. Lithuania follows the droit d’ auteur system. In general, the Lithuanian copyright law does not reflect any unique tradition. The development of intellectual property rights protection in Lithuania essentially coincided with the accession to international and regional organisations and to international agreements. When Lithuania decisively implemented one of its foreign policy aims — to become a member of the European Union — the approximation of its national law to the European Union legislation commenced in the field of intellectual property law as well as in the whole legal system. The scientific monograph and the few scientific articles analyse the main aspects of the protection of copyright: main principles of copyright, legal sources, subject matter of the protections, the author or other copyright owner, contents of protection (economic rights and moral rights), limitations and exceptions... [to full text]

International Protection of Industrial Rights Abstract The aim of thesis is to analyse international protection of industrial rights. Emphasis is placed on theoretical aspects of international law, specifics of functioning of international system, reasons explaining why the protection of industrial rights is included into international law and consequences of that. On the contrary thesis avoids detailed analysis of relevant international treaties which does not apply to TRIPS Agreement for its underlying significance of current system of international protection of industrial rights. Thesis is composed of nine chapters, including introduction and conclusion. Just after introduction the chapter dedicated to a brief introduction to basic terms of industrial rights is included. The introduction to the international level is represented in chapter three, this chapter tries to map the evolution and reasons of creation the protection of industrial rights on the international level from the half of 19th century to the present. Some current issues are also discussed here. Chapter four consists of two parts. First part focuses on international treaties, the crucial source of law on protection of industrial rights. Not only multilateral agreements but also bilateral agreements are discussed here. Second part deals...

Abstract Developing countries are net importers of intellectual property products and open source software (OSS) production is one way in which local socio-economic development can take place. The public goods characteristics of OSS are contested and this study investigates whether in a developing country context OSS is a pure public good that can be locally appropriated and not exclude any users or producers from doing so. This case study of an OSS public good finds that it does not have all the characteristics of a pure good, that there is a role for a sponsor, and in particular the importance of copyright protection of derivatives in order to ensure that the source code does not fall out of fashion and use. Having explored that, however, there is further evidence that OSS collaborative learning is both publically and personally beneficial for developing country computer programmers. Furthermore, the state benefits from the improved benefits of health information systems made possible through the appropriation of this model of learning.

Les noms de domaine sont des objets polymorphes, à la fois techniques et sémantiques. La question de leur régulation, avec l’essor du Domain Name System, est rapidement devenue un défi de taille pour le législateur. Face à une certaine défaillance du droit étatique s’est développé un véritable corpus supplétif de source privée. C’est notamment le cas des procédures extrajudiciaires de résolution des conflits mises en places par l’ICANN. Ces différents mécanismes de nature transnationale forment un ensemble cohérent, en constante évolution, que l’on peut qualifier de véritable lex domainia. Ce concept implique cependant une vision nécessairement pluraliste du droit - où cohabitent systèmes publics, privés et hybrides -, qui invite le juriste à repenser la théorie des sources. Cette thèse contribue à la compréhension de la nature et de l’articulation de ces différentes sphères normatives. Celles-ci ne doivent pas être considérées comme des espaces clos et hermétiques ; il existe entre eux des perméabilités qui dessinent un dispositif de régulation transnational aux sources plurielles. Il s’agit, selon l’auteur, d’une parfaite illustration de la théorie du réseau. / Domain names are polymorphic objects, whose nature is both technical and semantic. The question of their regulation has quickly become, with the rapid growth of the Domain Name System, a major challenge for the lawmaker. A certain default of state law favored the development of what one might call a private supplementary corpus. This is notably the case for extrajudicial domain name dispute resolution mechanisms promoted by the ICANN. These various transnational mechanisms form a coherent whole, in constant evolution, which can be described as a real lex domainia. This concept, however, necessarily implies a pluralistic conception of law - where public, private and hybrid systems cohabit -, which invites legal theorists to rethink the sources theory. This thesis contributes to the understanding of the nature and the articulation of these various normative spheres. These should not be regarded as closed and hermetic spaces ; permeabilities exist between them, that draw a transnational regulation pattern with plural sources. This is, according to the author, a perfect illustration of the mesh theory.

Uma das características mais marcantes da propriedade intelectual é a tensão existente entre interesses público e privado. Na seara das patentes, essa tensão se torna ainda mais evidente quando o objeto da propriedade privada é essencial à consecução de objetivos sociais, como é o claro caso dos medicamentos. Concebida para fomentar a inovação, oferecendo um crescente número de soluções aos problemas enfrentados pela sociedade, a patente deve servir de incentivo à atividade inventiva. Isso ocorre por meio do período de exclusividade concedido ao inventor, durante o qual somente ele está autorizado a explorar comercialmente o produto de seus esforços. Quando se trata de bens essenciais à manutenção da vida dos indivíduos, entretanto, a análise se torna mais complexa. Preços monopolísticos podem impedir o acesso a determinadas drogas e inviabilizar políticas de saúde pública, por exemplo. É o custo social de um sistema de proteção fundado no monopólio de exploração. A ausência de incentivos, entretanto, leva à ausência de investimentos em produtos inovadores (veja-se o claro exemplo das doenças negligenciadas), o que, por sua vez, também gera um custo social. Existe equilíbrio possível a essa equação? Ao regular como o conhecimento é compartilhado, e ao estabelecer limites ao que se pode (e não se pode) fazer com os produtos desse conhecimento, a propriedade intelectual assume papel central no debate que busca compreender a relação entre direito e desenvolvimento. É buscando contribuir para essa reflexão que a presente tese foi concebida. Pretende-se demonstrar que quando se olha para o desenvolvimento de forma integrada, o progresso econômico por si só deixa de ser suficiente para atender às necessidades de crescimento das nações. Logo, as justificativas econômicas ao sistema de proteção patentário também deixam de ser suficientes para, por si só, atenderem aos anseios de desenvolvimento dos mais variados países. O trabalho encontra-se estruturado em quatro capítulos principais. O primeiro apresenta o ambiente internacional no qual se dá, majoritariamente, a produção normativa em matéria de propriedade intelectual; bem como a trajetória que moldou o atual quadro brasileiro em matéria de patentes e acesso a medicamentos. O segundo capítulo analisa as principais teorias que justificam o sistema de patentes, bem como aquelas que evidenciam suas fragilidades, além de discutir alternativas possíveis de fomento à inovação. O terceiro capítulo, por sua vez, estabelece o conceito de desenvolvimento que pauta a análise central proposta pela tese e o quarto e último capítulo traça um desenho da realidade da indústria farmacêutica no Brasil, no qual fica evidenciado que a produção de novos conhecimentos, passíveis de gerar inovação na área da saúde, é uma das grandes fragilidades nacionais. Sob a ótica de uma concepção integrada de desenvolvimento, conclui-se que a atual estrutura normativa patentária, por não oferecer alternativas ao monopólio como fomento à inovação, é mais prejudicial do que benéfica ao desenvolvimento do país, sendo necessário conceber modelos alternativos de proteção que possam coexistir com o modelo vigente. / One of the most noteworthy features of intellectual property rights is the existing tension between public and private interests. Particularly in the field of patents, such tension becomes even more evident when the object of private property is key to the achievement of social goals, as is the clear case of medicines. Conceived to foster innovation and offer society an ever-increasing number of solutions to everyday problems, patents must function as real incentives to creative activity. This is feasible because for a limited period of time, the inventor is the sole detainer of the commercial rights to explore his invention. When goods are, as in the case of drugs, essential to people\'s lives, the analysis becomes much more complex. Monopolistic prices may hinder access to certain drugs and, thus, make public health policies more difficult. Based on monopoly rights, this protection system has social costs. Lack of economic incentives, on the other hand, may lead to shortage of investments in innovative products (see the case of neglected diseases, for instance), which also generates social cost. Is it possible to strike balance to this equation? By regulating how knowledge is shared, and by establishing limits to what can and cannot be done to knowledge products, intellectual property rights take on a key role in the debate that seeks to understand the relationship between law and development. This dissertation aims at contributing to such discussion, by primarily demonstrating that when development is conceived in a holistic manner, economic progress in itself no longer suffices nations. Thus, the economic rationale used for the patent system also ceases to fulfill development goals in a significantly increasing number of countries. The dissertation is divided into four main parts. Chapter one portrays the international environment in which most intellectual property issues are regulated, as well as the historical and political routes that led to the current Brazilian legal framework of patents and access to medicines. Chapter two analyses the main legal and economic theories that justify the existence of the patent system, as well as those that evidence its shortcomings. It further presents and discusses existing alternative options that may encourage innovation in this area. Chapter three establishes the concept of development that is central to the dissertation\'s main analysis, while chapter four tells the story of pharmaceutical production in Brazil. The central line traced through the dissertation makes it then possible to demonstrate how national knowledge production that may lead to pharmaceutical innovations is one of the country\'s main limitations. The use of a holistic view of development leads to the conclusion that the current patent framework is, in fact, inadequate and produces more damage than benefits to the development of Brazil, to the extent that it does not offer alternative solutions to monopoly power. Different incentive models that can coexist with the current system are, in this sense, desiderata.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:21:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Liliane Mahalem de Lima.pdf: 454495 bytes, checksum: d641ecb11495de8bcbd60899a61c2dff (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-29 / This dissertation addresses the issue of the intangible cultural heritage in the prism of Law. It analyses, thru a socioenvironmental perspective, the legal protection over the knowledges and the collective intellectual rights of traditional populations. As a interdisciplinary, it links diverse legal areas (Constitutional, International, Environmental, Diffuse and Collective) and attempts to take into account some anthropological dimensions. The study begins with a brief history of the consolidation of intangible cultural heritage in Brazil, collated with the simultaneous treatment within the UNESCO. Thereafter, the intangible cultural heritage is conceptualized taking the Federal Constitution of 1988 as is central axis, from which the protective legal instruments -the National Registry and Inventory of Cultural References, developed within the Institute of Artistic Heritage and (IPHAN) are analysed. Then, the text unfolds and deepens the "cultural heritage" taking into account its relations with legal notions of environmental and diffuse heritage and its public concern. Then, it analyses the core concerns of socioenviromentalism in Brazil, taking into account its mais duality: the protection of bio and social diversity. In sequence, the work addresses the formal concept of traditional peoples , and in its wake, the Provisional Measure No. 2.186-16/2001 which, under the Brazilian law, confers protection over the traditional knowledges associated with biodiversity. At the end, this work considers the general proposal to build a sui generis legal system to protect the traditional knowledges and the genetic resources found in the lands occupied by traditional and indigenous populations, as well as other collective rights related to social and biodiversity / Esta dissertação de mestrado aborda o patrimônio cultural imaterial sob o prisma do Direito, analisando a proteção jurídica aos conhecimentos tradicionais e aos direitos intelectuais coletivos das populações tradicionais sob a perspectiva socioambiental. Parte de uma abordagem interdisciplinar, relacionando diversas áreas jurídicas como: Constitucional, Internacional, Ambiental e os Difusos e Coletivos, bem como procura levar em consideração algumas dimensões antropológicas. O estudo se inicia com um breve histórico sobre a consolidação do patrimônio cultural imaterial no Brasil, cotejado ao tratamento simultâneo recebido no âmbito da UNESCO. A partir daí, o patrimônio cultural intangível foi conceituado tendo por eixo central a Constituição Federal de 1988, bem como foram analisados os instrumentos jurídicos protetivos, que são: o Registro e o Inventário Nacional de Referências Culturais, desenvolvidos no âmbito do Instituto do Patrimônio Artístico e Nacional (IPHAN). Em seguida, desdobra e aprofunda o bem cultural tendo em conta as relações às noções jurídicas de bem ambiental, bem difuso e bem de interesse eminentemente público. Depois, são analisados os principais aspectos do socioambientalismo no Brasil tendo em conta a dualidade: sociodiversidade e biodiversidade. Na sequencia, o trabalho aborda o conceito de Populações Tradicionais e, em seu bojo, a Medida Provisória n° 2.186-16/2001 que confere, no direito brasileiro, proteção aos conhecimentos tradicionais associados à biodiversidade. Ao final, considera a proposta de construção de um regime jurídico sui generis para a proteção aos conhecimentos tradicionais e aos recursos genéticos presentes nas terras ocupadas pelas populações tradicionais e indígenas, bem como outros direitos coletivos relacionados a sócio e a biodiversidade