1. See H. C. Anawalt and E. F. Enayati, IP Strategy — Complete Intellectual Property Planning, Access, and Protection (West Group 2001) §1.01.
2. Magna Carta, P 41, version prepared by Paul Halsall Feb 1996,
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/mcarta.html
.(1215); see also 70 University of Colorado Law Review, 1051, 1055.
3. Letters To The Editor: “Playing Cards In The Hashemite Kingdom Of Jordan”, Richard C. Wilder, 2 University of Baltimore Intellectual Property Journal 237.
4. Statute of Anne, 8 Annec. 19 1710. See Gorman and Ginsburg, Copyright for the Nineties, 4th ed. p. 1.
5. Treaties establish obligations between or among the states that enter into them. Usually the treaty itself does not provide the rule of decision in a given controversy between private parties. The law of the nation must be changed to incorporate the rules. Whether the treaty will create private rights depends on the intention expressed in the treaty and upon the expressed legislative will of the nation having jurisdiction over the particular piece of private litigation. See H. C. Anawalt and E. F. Enayati, IP Strategy — Complete Intellectual Property Planning, Access, and Protection (West Group 2001) §1.03 [17].