ABSTRACT
Copyright law scholarship, certainly in the United States but elsewhere as well, tends to be rather fixated on "the latest case" or controversy. The more favored issues include how recent technological developments, or new statutory provisions, such as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or the European Union Copyright Directive, are creating "new" copyright disputes and quagmires on almost a daily basis. National treatment means equal treatment or equal protection by law of the copyrights to works owned by nationals and nonnationals alike. Proponents of Berne and Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights values may suggest that the above views take a too one-sided and negative approach to copyright issues in countries of the South. It is impossible to provide accurate figures on the dollar value of the international trade in copyrighted materials, and on the value of the flow between developed countries and countries of the South.
