In collaboration with: Carlos Correa (Argentina), Séverine Dusollier (France), Christophe Geiger (France), Jonathan Griffiths (UK), Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan (UK), Annette Kur (Germany), Xiuqin Lin (China), Ryszard Markiewics (Poland), Sylvie Nérisson (France), Alexander Peukert (Germany), Martin Senftleben (Netherlands) y Raquel Xalabarder (Spain). Asistieron parcialmente: Denis Borges Barbosa (Brazil), Michael Carroll (USA), Thomas Dreier (Germany), Gül Okutan Nilsson (Turkey), Jerome H. Reichman (USA) & Jan Rosén (Sweden).

The "International Instrument on Permitted Uses in Copyright Law" is the result of a research project for a balanced reconciliation of interests in copyright law. The project was coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and resulted in a legal instrument designed in the form of an international treaty establishing a core of minimum permitted uses of works. This core of permitted uses is intended to be mandatory for prospective Contracting Parties, who remain free, however, to go beyond the minimum set of permitted uses provided for in the Instrument. The approach undertaken on the basis of "minimum permitted uses" counterbalances the traditional "minimum protection" approach of international copyright law. Among other things, this approach supports Contracting Parties in addressing the political pressure that notoriously exists in international negotiations, especially in the context of bilateral or regional agreements.