Trademark category: 266 books
by Christopher Beauchamp
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Christopher Beauchamp debunks the myth of Alexander Graham Bell as the telephone’s sole inventor, exposing that story’s origins in the arguments advanced by Bell’s lawyers during fiercely contested battles for patent monopoly. The courts anointed Bell father of the telephone—likely the most consequential intellectual property right ever granted.
by James Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Thousands of patents are issued each year and obtaining a patent is an important accomplishment. But don't assume that after a patent is obtained your job is over. In reality, the most difficult task comes after the patent is issued.
Protect Your Patent is a vital source of information for...
Patent Trolls
Predatory Litigation and the Smothering of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Stiflers of innovation, patent trolls use overbroad patents based on dated technology to threaten litigation and bring infringement suits against inventors. Trolls, also known as nonpracticing entities (NPEs), typically do not produce products or services but are in the business of litigation. They...
The Pocket Legal Companion to Copyright
A User-Friendly Handbook for Protecting and Profiting from Copyrights
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In our age of unlimited, around-the-clock communication, copyright literacy has become a must for almost all of us, and everyone—informed or not—seems to have strong opinions about the rights of copyright owners and the rights of copyright users. This clearly written and objective book will reward...
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...
Copyright’s Highway
From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
From eighteenth-century copyright law, to current-day copyright issues on the internet, to tomorrow's "celestial jukebox"—a digital repository of books, movies, and music available on demand—Paul Goldstein presents a thorough examination of the challenges facing copyright owners and...
by James Constant
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
Federal judges are the unelected and unaccountable hacks of the capitalist system which now controls our government. They serve the interests of corporations which now hire the legislators, executives, and judges to write and rule the laws in their favor. Laws are made and judges use them to protect...
Internet Book Piracy
The Fight to Protect Authors, Publishers, and Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The international battle against Internet pirates has been heating up. Increasingly law enforcement is paying attention to book piracy as ebook publishing gains an ever-larger market share. With this threat to their health and even survival, publishers and authors must act much like the music, film,...
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...
by Aislinn O'Connell
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
The perfect distillation of everything you need to know about copyright law.
Covering everything from copyright’s early history to the protection of cutting-edge software, Copyright Master is a concise, practical guide through the labyrinth of licensing and intellectual property.
Whether...
by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
We all create intellectual property. We all use intellectual property. Intellectual property is the most pervasive yet least understood way we regulate expression. Despite its importance to so many aspects of the global economy and daily life, intellectual property policy remains a confusing and arcane...
The Idealist
Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
This smart, “riveting” (Los Angeles Times) history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society—and the life and shocking suicide of Aaron Swartz, a founding developer of Reddit and Creative Commons—written by Slate correspondent Justin Peters “captures Swartz...
Common as Air
Revolution, Art, and Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past that continues to enrich our present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is "intellectual property," Lewis Hyde turns to America's founding...
From Maimonides to Microsoft
The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Jewish copyright law is a rich body of jurisprudence that developed in parallel with modern copyright laws and the book privileges that preceded them. Jewish copyright law owes its origins to a reprinting ban that the Rome rabbinic court issued for three books of Hebrew grammar in 1518. It continues...