Intellectual Property Law and Meta-Regulation – An Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Challenge

The present chapter analyses the intersection of intellectual property law and meta-regulation with a particular focus on current regulatory challenges of the globalized digital economy. It sets out how the interaction of state IP law, informal social norms, corporate codes of conduct and regulatory effects of technology forms a complex, multi-level system of innovation governance, and proposes to link IP jurisprudence and meta-regulation within the framework of IP law’s Fairness principle.