Media The Law category: 455 books
Dynamic Fair Dealing
Creating Canadian Culture Online
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Dynamic Fair Dealing argues that only a dynamic, flexible, and equitable approach to cultural ownership can accommodate the astonishing range of ways that we create, circulate, manage, attribute, and make use of digital cultural objects.
The Canadian legal tradition strives to balance the rights...
Innovation and IPRs in China and India
Myths, Realities and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
This book examines the two most populous nations on earth – India and China – in an effort to demystify the interaction between intellectual property rights (IPR) regimes, innovation and economic growth by critically looking at the economic and legal realities. In addition, it analyzes the question...
Remuneration of Copyright Owners
Regulatory Challenges of New Business Models
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This book evaluates existing and explores new mechanisms for the adequate payment of copyright owners for the use of their works. The underlying assumption is that adequate rewards to creators and subsequent right holders will continue to be a goal of copyright law (particularly to incentivize further...
Freedom of the Press in India
Constitutional Provisions and Their Application
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This study is intended to present to the reader the main provisions of law affecting freedom of the press in India. It is specially concerned with examining how far freedom of the press obtains in free India. I t is proposed to discuss constitutional provisions and their application through various...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This book is highly topical. The shift from the multilateral WTO negotiations to bilateral and regional Free Trade Agreements has been going on for some time, but it is bound to accelerate after the WTO Doha round of negotiations is now widely regarded as a failure. However, there is a particular...
by Stanley Rothenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There have been many notable descriptions of music but perhaps one of the most apt from the viewpoint of law and commerce was Ian Hay's statement, "Music is about the most vulnerable piece of property that a man can bring into the world, especially today. " With the increased use of music...
The Breeder's Exception to Patent Rights
Analysis of Compliance with Article 30 of the TRIPS Agreement
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
This book is the first to analyze the compliance of different types of a breeder's exception to patent rights with article 30 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. This type of exception allows using protected biological matter for breeding new varieties of plants. The...
The Right of Publicity
Privacy Reimagined for a Public World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Who controls how one’s identity is used by others? This legal question, centuries old, demands greater scrutiny in the Internet age. Jennifer Rothman uses the right of publicity—a little-known law, often wielded by celebrities—to answer that question, not just for the famous but for everyone....
by Angela Daly
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Additive manufacturing or ‘3D printing’ has emerged into the mainstream in the last few years, with much hype about its revolutionary potential as the latest ‘disruptive technology’ to destroy existing business models, empower individuals and evade any kind of government control. This book...
The Competence of the European Union in Copyright Lawmaking
A Normative Perspective of EU Powers for Copyright Harmonization
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This book inquires into the competence of the EU to legislate in the field of copyright, and uses content analysis techniques to demonstrate the existence of a normative gap in copyright lawmaking. To address that gap, it proposes the creation of benchmarks of legislative activity, reasoning that...
Drugs
America's Holy War
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Using the best scientific evidence, Drugs: America's Holy War explores the impact and cost of America’s "War on Drugs" – both in tax spending and in human terms. Is it possible that US drug policies are helping to proliferate, not prevent, a multitude of social ills including: homicide,...
Attacking Judges
How Campaign Advertising Influences State Supreme Court Elections
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Nasty, below-the-belt campaigns, mudslinging, and character attacks. These tactics have become part and parcel of today's election politics in America, and judicial elections are no exception. Attacking Judges takes a close look at the effects of televised advertising, including harsh attacks, on...
by W. Mak
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
When dealing, as in this study, with gramophone records, we almost unconsciously think of music. For the number of gramophone records in which music, either vocal or instrumental, does not playa part is quite small. Hence we shall concern our selves principally with musical records. 1. Music may...
JUROR 11
A STORY OF MURDER A STORY OF JUDGMENT
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2016
Ever wanted to be a juror on an important trial? Now is your chance. In this book, you’ll be a virtual juror, experiencing the challenges of a trial involving murder, deception, judgment and plenty of excitement.
In Juror 11, you will journey into a courtroom, taking your place in one of...