In these times of globalization and fast-developing information technology, which allow for the cheap duplication of knowledge, the need to protect intellectual-property rights on an international level has become more pressing. In his article, Dinwoodie sketches the connection between the generation and distribution of knowledge and international copyright law (Dinwoodie [2004]). In the process he analyzes several aspects and implications of international copyright law for the generation and distribution of knowledge from the viewpoint of a legal scientist. He focusses on the role public structuring plays in the private ordering of copyright norms. (As a reminder: Dinwoodie defines public structuring as the legal underpinnings of any private activity.) For this purpose, he analyzes how private norms have been set by the commercial practices of private information intermediaries and digital rights management systems. Copyright is one of several instruments used to set incentives for the creation of knowledge and to regulate its distribution.1 Worldwide copyright legislation is based on the Berne Convention (see WIPO [1998]).2 Copyright protects literary, artistic, musical, photographic, and cinematographic works as well as computer programs, compilations of data that constitute intellectual creations, and derivatives of copyrighted works. The minimal term for copyright protection for most of these types of works is the author's lifetime plus fifty years. This can be extended if such rules exist at the national level. Rights granted to the author by copyright include reproduction and exclusion rights, as well as rights related to the performing, translating, and adapting of works. Nevertheless, copyright protects only expressions, and not ideas, procedures, or methods of operation. Dinwoodie points out several balances copyright law strives to achieve. One central goal of copyright law is to enhance the generation of knowledge. Since information (and therefore knowledge) constitutes a public good, not enough will be generated from a social perspective if knowledge generation is left to private