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STATUS OF STATUTARY LIMITATIONS OF COPYRIGHT AND PATENT IN INTERNATIONAL AND SERBIAN LAW

Slobodan M. Marković

10.55836/PiP_23202A
ABSTRACT /

The focus of the work is on the confrontation of the traditional (de lege lata) and modern (de lege ferenda) concepts of the “three-step test”, which shows that the traditional principle of restrictiveness in the regulation of the limitation of rights gives way to the principles of purposefullness and proportionality. This enables this test to become a flexible and effective tool for adjusting the balance of relevant interests in the protection of intellectual property, in order to achieve the public interest – the improvement of creativity, development and community welfare.

The “three-step test” is, by its very nature, an instructive international legal norm addressed to the national legislator who prescribes the limitations of rights. In Serbia, this test was incorporated into the text of Law on Copyright and Related Rights and Law on Patents, which gave it the nature of a national legal norm that binds entities that apply the law. Considering the causes and consequences of this unusual phenomenon, the author criticizes the technique of harmonizing domestic law with EU law, where the emphasis is on the criterion of text matching, and not on the substantive integration of EU norms into the domestic legal order.

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