Die Qualifikation des Verlagsvertrages im internationalen Privatrecht

Publishing contracts are often concluded across borders raising the question of the applicable law. As many domestic intellectual property systems differ greatly in terms of copyright protection the applicable law is particularly relevant for the outcome of legal disputes. The decisive gateway for determining the applicable law is the private international law instrument of classification. The thesis develops a European classification method with regard to copyright contract law. On this basis, selected norms of German copyright contract law are classified, i.e. assigned to the copyright statute or the publishing contract statute.