Conflicts in International Intellectual Property. The Blasco Ibáñez Case in the United States

Abstract

Until the internationalization of intellectual property law at the beginning of the XX Century, there were some conflicts between writers and publishers from different countries. The case of the United States was especially notorious because of the legal differences between them and the European counties. Generally, the commerce of foreign books was small, therefore the complications were few. But with Vicente Blasco Ibáñez it was different, being a best-seller author. The Spaniard had important problems with his rights between translators and publishers in the beginning of his days as a writer in the country because of his lack if knowledge of the American Copyright Law. An exhaustive list of his works published by the author in the United States is added as an annex.