Intellectual Property category: 394 books
by Marie C. Malaro, Ildiko DeAngelis
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Hailed when it was first published in 1985 as the bible of U.S. collections management, A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections offers the only comprehensive discussion of the legal questions faced by museums regarding collections. This revised and expanded third edition addresses the many legal...
The Commons, Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research
Challenges for Food Security and Agrobiodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
The joint challenges of population increase, food security and conservation of agrobiodiversity demand a rethink of plant breeding and agricultural research from a different perspective. While more food is undeniably needed, the key question is rather about how to produce it in a way that sustains...
by Merima Bruncevic
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The concept of the cultural commons has become increasingly important for legal studies. Within this field, however, it is a contested concept: at once presented as a sphere for creativity, democratic access and freedom of speech, but one that denies property rights and misappropriates the public...
Cybercrime
Key Issues and Debates
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Now in its second edition, Cybercrime: Key Issues and Debates provides a valuable overview of this fast-paced and growing area of law. As technology develops and internet-enabled devices become ever more prevalent, new opportunities exist for that technology to be exploited by criminals. One result...
Creative Commons: a user guide
A complete manual with a theoretical introduction and pratical suggestions
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Here is an operational manual which guides creators step by step in the world of Creative Commons licenses, the most famous and popular licenses for free distribution of intellectual products. Without neglecting useful conceptual clarifications, the author goes into technical details of the tools...
by Kim Staflund
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
According to renowned American businessman and investor, Robert Kiyosaki, an “Asset can be anything as long as it has value, produces income or appreciates, and has a ready market. Assets put money IN your pocket.” Before Kiyosaki’s popular Rich Dad Poor Dad book was published, many of us viewed...
Innovate!
How Great Companies Get Started in Terrible Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Learn the lessons of how great companies began in the worst economic times
Eli Lilly. IBM. Medtronic, Procter & Gamble. Hewlett-Packard and Marvel Entertainment. All great companies and all made their start during the worst economic times.
Innovate!: How Great Companies Get Started...
by Rogers,James
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
A Plain English Guide for Obtaining Your Patent and Making Money With ItYour invention is the product of effort and ingenuity that deserves to be protected. Reward all your hard work and creativity by obtaining a patent. The Complete Patent Kit contains everything you need to successfully navigate...
by Mark Warda
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
After putting your time and effort into creating an original work, you should be sure that work is protected from those who may want to steal it. Without a copyright, you could lose the right that the law provides for your work.
How to Register Your Own Copyright gives you detailed information...
Wrap Contracts
Foundations and Ramifications
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
When you visit a website, check your email, or download music, you enter into a contract that you probably don't know exists. "Wrap contracts" - shrinkwrap, clickwrap and browsewrap agreements - are non-traditional contracts that look nothing like legal documents. Contrary to what courts...
The Internet, Warts and All
Free Speech, Privacy and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
The Internet, Warts and All asks questions. Why are government digital policies so often out of touch and counter-productive? Why is surveillance law problematic and ineffective - and often defeated in court? Do companies like Google and Facebook really care about freedom of speech? Why are neither...
Code Wars
10 Years of P2P Software Litigation
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The content industry spent the better part of the last decade seeking to hold P2P software providers liable for the infringements of their users. Its emphatic victories against the providers of Napster, Aimster, Grokster, Morpheus and Kazaa led directly to a massive shakeout of large commercial file...
Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain
Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
The names of James Joyce and Ezra Pound ring out in the annals of literary modernism, but few recognize the name of Samuel Roth. A brash, business-savvy entrepreneur, Roth made a name--and a profit--for himself as the founding editor and owner of magazines that published selections from foreign writings--especially...
by Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2011
This book provides a practical overview of Canadian trade-mark practice.Chapters 1 through 3 summarize general trade-mark practice in Canada, including the procedural and specific requirements for filing trade-mark applications. Chapter 3 highlights some of the unique aspects of these requirements...