Under the auspices of the International Association of Legal Science. The Responsible Editors for the Encyclopedia as a whole are Professors U. Drobnig and K. Zweigert † of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, Hamburg. Each of the seventeen volumes has a Chief Editor or Editors, whose primary duty is to organize and coordinate the work on the major topic of that volume. The final responsibility for specific chapters is assumed by about 400 reporters.

V. 14 : 1. General Questions – The International Conventions - - 2. Copyright – National and International Development - - 3. Copyright – Comparison of Law - - 4. Neighbouring Rights – National and International Developments - - 5. Neighbouring Rights – Comparison of Laws - - 6. Collective Administration of Copyrights and Neighbouring Rights - - 7. Employee Inventions.