Managing International Property (and why it's important)

The ubiquity of the Internet has changed the way that content is dealt with by creators, intermediaries and end users, blurring their roles and increasing the complexity of managing the multiplicity of works that result.

As rights holders try to maintain their connection with the use of their works, and the cost of creating new works increases, there will be substantial economic and time pressures for other parties wishing to add value, extend or adapt and aggregate the original material. However the need to maintain an externally provable chain of title remains as strong in the digital world as it has ever been. This is true across many forms, including software, entertainment, art, or business models, or any form of expression we can loosely define as "intellectual property".