The creation of commercial products and services cannot be successful without international trade. This is also true for cultural products and services. So sooner or later, cultural producers will have to deal with the regulation systems of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). It is precisely the WTO that provides an instrument for regulating free trade worldwide, including instruments for temporary protection, if necessary.
This book of Van den Bossche gives virtually all answers to questions related to culture and trade. It shows cultural entrepreneurs with international ambitions how to navigate in the complex field of trade regulations. It shows politicians and policy makers from nation states how to combine their democratically led cultural systems with the blessings of international trade. It's also an indispensable tool for students and scholars who want to know everything about free trade and culture on the eve of an academic, administrative, policy or entrepreneurial career.
To view Van den Bossche's Maastricht Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2007-4 of the same title, click here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=979530.  

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