Trademark category: 266 books
Public Rights
Copyright's Public Domains
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Access to works in the public domain is an important source of human creativity and autonomy, whether in the arts, scientific research or online discourse. But what can users actually do with works without obtaining the permission of a copyright owner? Readers will be surprised to find how many different...
Copyright and International Negotiations
An Engine of Free Expression in China?
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Copyright and International Negotiations provides a historical study of the development of Chinese copyright law in terms of China's contemporary political economy and the impact that international copyright law has had. The analysis shows how China's copyright system is intertwined with censorship...
Public Domain, The
How to Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Need content? Find public domain works free for the taking!
Even though you've always been told otherwise, writers and artists can often copy other people’s work and get away with it. Enter the world of the public domain, where everything is free for the taking, and the only secret to unlocking...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
La neutralité de l’Internet requiert de garantir aux usagers un accès égal à tous les services et contenus en ligne. En pratique, la gestion du trafic oblige les opérateurs à différencier certains paquets d’information circulant sur les réseaux, par exemple pour lutter contre les messages...
Copyright Exhaustion
Law and Policy in the United States and the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
In this timely book, copyright scholar Péter Mezei offers a comprehensive examination of copyright exhaustion, including its historical development, theoretical framework, practical application, and policy considerations. He compares the substantive norms and case law for the first-sale doctrine...
Harmonising Copyright Law and Dealing with Dissonance
A Framework for Convergence of US and EU law
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This insightful study explores the constitutional, institutional, and cultural barriers to harmonisation of the copyright laws of the United States and the European Union. It considers these matters in the real world transnational environment in which copyright law operates and suggests that the reality...
Intellectual Property and Private International Law
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
'Intellectual property and private international law' was one of the subjects discussed at the 18th International Congress of Comparative Law held in Washington (July 2010). This volume contains the General Report and 20 National Reports covering Canada, US, Japan, Korea, India and a number of European...
How to Make Patent Drawings
Save Thousands of Dollars and Do It With a Camera and Computer!
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2019
The best do-it-yourself guide to preparing drawings for your patent application.
Artistic License
The Philosophical Problems of Copyright and Appropriation
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
The art scene today is one of appropriation—of remixing, reusing, and recombining the works of other artists. From the musical mash-ups of Girl Talk to the pop-culture borrowings of Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, it’s clear that the artistic landscape is shifting—which leads to some tricky legal...
by Stéphane Ternoise
Language: French
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Candidat "de témoignage" aux seules élections accessibles à un membre "de base", Stéphane Ternoise publie en juin 2015 : "La sacem ? une oligarchie !"
« Je demande simplement la démocratie là où une oligarchie accapare tous les pouvoirs : à la sacem ;...
Écrivains, réveillez-vous !
La loi 2012-287 du 1er mars 2012 et autres somnifères
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Edition revue et actualisée en mars 2014. Disponible en numérique et en papier.
Stéphane Ternoise, écrivain vraiment indépendant depuis 1991, observateur non subventionné du monde littéraire, essayiste du net, http://www.essayiste.net dénonce une loi de la République, la décortique,...
Complex Copyright
Mapping the Information Ecosystem
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This book draws on a wide selection of interdisciplinary literature discussing complex adaptive systems - including scholarship from economics, political science, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and religion - to apply general complexity tenets to the institutions, conceptual framework, and...
The World Blind Union Guide to the Marrakesh Treaty
Facilitating Access to Books for Print-Disabled Individuals
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled is a watershed development in the fields of intellectual property and human rights. As the first international legal instrument to establish mandatory exceptions to...
by Abraham Drassinower
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Abraham Drassinower presents a new way to balance the needs of creators and users of authored works. Disentangling copyright theory from its focus on the economic value of a work as a commodity, he views a work instead as a communicative act. Infringement, according to this perspective, is an unauthorized appropriation of another’s speech.