International Arbitration

The choice depends on factors including dispute value, complexity, industry, and geographic considerations. Major institutions include the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, and AAA-ICDR, each with different rules, costs, and administrative approaches suited to different types of disputes.

Timelines vary significantly based on complexity, but most institutional arbitrations take 12 to 24 months from filing to award. Expedited procedures are available for smaller or less complex disputes, while large multi-party cases may take longer.

Yes, awards are enforceable in over 170 countries under the New York Convention, making them more readily enforceable across borders than court judgments. Limited grounds for refusal, such as procedural irregularity or public policy violations, exist but are narrowly construed.

Costs include institutional fees, arbitrator fees, legal fees, and expert costs. While arbitration can be expensive, costs are often comparable to or lower than multi-jurisdictional litigation. Many institutions offer cost management tools and expedited procedures for smaller claims.

Fair use is a defense that permits limited use of copyrighted material without permission. Courts consider four factors: the purpose and character of use (commercial vs. educational, transformative vs. copying), the nature of the copyrighted work, the amount used, and the effect on the market. Fair use is highly fact-specific.

For works created today by individual authors, copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years. Works made for hire and anonymous/pseudonymous works are protected for 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever is shorter. Older works may have different terms.

Yes, software code is protected by copyright as a literary work. Both source code and object code can be registered. However, copyright protects the expression of ideas, not the underlying functionality—patent protection may be more appropriate for novel methods and processes implemented in software.

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