Copyright category: 266 books
Copyright
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Copyright law was once an esoteric backwater, the special province of professional authors, publishers, and media companies. This is no longer the case. In the age of social media and cloud storage, we have become a copying and sharing culture. Much of our everyday communication, work, and entertainment...
Copyright's Highway
From the Printing Press to the Cloud, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
In Copyright's Highway, one of the nation's leading authorities on intellectual property law offers an engaging, readable, and intelligent analysis of the effect of copyright on American politics, economy, and culture. From eighteenth-century copyright law, to the "celestial jukebox," to the future...
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...
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...
Networks of Power in Digital Copyright Law and Policy
Political Salience, Expertise and the Legislative Process
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
In this book, Benjamin Farrand employs an interdisciplinary approach that combines legal analysis with political theory to explore the development of copyright law in the EU. Farrand utilises Foucault’s concept of Networks of Power and Culpepper’s Quiet Politics to assess the adoption and enforcement...
Authors, Users, and Pirates
Copyright Law and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
An examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational framework.
In current debates over copyright law, the author, the user, and the pirate are almost always invoked. Some in the creative industries call for more legal protection for authors;...
Copyright Beyond Law
Regulating Creativity in the Graffiti Subculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The form of graffiti writing on trains and walls is not accidental. Nor is its absence on cars and houses. Employing a particular style of letters, choosing which walls and trains to write on, copying another writer, altering or destroying another writer's work: these acts are regulated within the...
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...
Managing Copyright in Higher Education
A Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
As more and more colleges and universities establish copyright offices and/or assign the responsibilities of copyright education and advisory services to specific individuals within the institution, many times librarians, there is a paucity of resources available on how to manage that responsibility....
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 Francina Cantatore
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Basic copyright laws and enforcements have been in effect for hundreds of years. However, laws with such extensive histories can often make understanding them complicated. As publishing moves into a digital arena, copyright laws have become increasingly complex. Authors, Copyright, and Publishing...
(Re)structuring Copyright
A Comprehensive Path to International Copyright Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
In this bold and persuasive work Daniel Gervais, one of the world’s leading thinkers on the subject of intellectual property, argues that the international copyright system is in need of a root and branch rethink. As the Internet alters the world in which copyright operates beyond all recognition,...
Copyright Law
Volume III: Copyright in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume shows how, since 1950, the growth of copyright regulation has followed, and enabled, the extraordinary economic growth of the entertainment, broadcasting, software and communications industries. It reproduces articles written by an extensive list of leading thinkers. US scholars represented...
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...