Patent category: 266 books
by Stephen Fishman
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
The public domain—the body of creative works not entitled to copyright protection—is the world's greatest intellectual resource. Unfortunately, it can be extraordinarily hard to determine whether a work (or part of a work) is in the public domain. The first book of its kind, Copyright and the...
Copyright User Rights
Contracts and the Erosion of Property
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This is the first book to offer an in-depth investigation of the unsettled nature, scope and dynamics of copyright user rights in an increasingly dematerialized environment. Combining a detailed theoretical framework with practical applications, the book provides a comprehensive perspective on copyright...
From Edison to iPod
Protect your Ideas and Profit
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
It is time for an intellectual property wake-up call! Think intellectual property doesn't affect you or your business? Think again! As technology changes, intellectual property is affecting more people than ever before. If you have a big idea, you need to know your rights and how to protect them.
What...
Patenting Genes
The Requirement of Industrial Application
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book constitutes a fascinating and in-depth analysis of the significance of the requirement of industrial application within gene patenting and how this influences innovation in Europe and the US. The author addresses an area normally overlooked in biotechnology patenting due to the predominance...
Conceptions in the Code
How Metaphors Explain Legal Challenges in Digital Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Stefan Larsson's Conceptions in the Code makes a significant contribution to sociolegal analysis, representing a valuable contribution to conceptual metaphor theory. By utilising the case of copyright in a digital context it explains the role that metaphor plays when the law is dealing with technological...
Enter the Undead Author
Intellectual Property, the Ideology of Authorship, and Performance Practices since the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Many narratives of theater history suggest that the 1960s marked the start of a turning away from traditional, script-based, playwright-centric production practices. Literary studies in this period began exploring the concept of the “death of the author” along similar lines. But the author refused...
The Copyright/Design Interface
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Protecting designs is complex and diverse; it involves deciding whether to protect them by design law, copyright law, or by both laws. A single protection may be under- or overprotective but two or more can be overprotective if there are no rules regulating the overlap. Legal systems in Europe and...
A Copyright Masquerade
How Corporate Lobbying Threatens Online Freedoms
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
When thousands marched through ice and snow against a copyright treaty, their cries for free speech on the Internet shot to the heart of the European Union and forced a political U-turn. The mighty entertainment industries could only stare in dismay, their back-room plans in tatters. This highly original...
by Gretchen McCord
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
The “secrets” identified and discussed in this book are actually aspects of fair use that are either not widely recognized or not widely discussed. Understanding these facets of the fair use doctrine will help readers understand this often complex and heavily nuanced part of copyright law at a...
Creativity and Its Discontents
China’s Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Creativity and Its Discontents is a sharp critique of the intellectual property rights (IPR)–based creative economy, particularly as it is embraced or ignored in China. Laikwan Pang argues that the creative economy—in which creativity is an individual asset to be commodified and protected as property—is...
Reclaiming Fair Use
How to Put Balance Back in Copyright, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
In the increasingly complex and combative arena of copyright in the digital age, record companies sue college students over peer-to-peer music sharing, YouTube removes home movies because of a song playing in the background, and filmmakers are denied a distribution deal when a permissions i proves...
by Alexandre Pires Vieira
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 15, 2018
O Objetivo deste livro é refletir sobre o impacto da Internet e das inovações tecnológicas nos Direitos Autorais e propor soluções sobre os desafios existentes atualmente. A análise é feita com a ótica do usuário de bens culturais. Esta obra também se propõe a narrar o surgimento e evolução...
by Monirul Azam
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Across the world, developing countries are attempting to balance the international standards of intellectual property concerning pharmaceutical patents against the urgent need for accessible and affordable medicines. In this timely and necessary book, Monirul Azam examines the attempts of several...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Ten years after the Freedom of Information Act 2000 came into force in the UK, the implementation and case law related to the Act remains contentious. This new edition of the standard practitioners' text provides a complete, authoritative, and accessible guide to this challenging and rapidly evolving...