Copyright category: 266 books
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
The modern framework in the legal field in the United States for the protection of the copyrights has been found in the 1976 Copyright Law of the United States, as amended, which has been codified in the respective Title 17 of the respective Code of the United States.
Inherent Vice
Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
In an age of digital technology and renewed anxiety about media piracy, Inherent Vice revisits the recent analog past with an eye-opening exploration of the aesthetic and legal innovations of home video. Analog videotape was introduced to consumers as a blank format, essentially as a bootleg technology,...
by Stavroula Karapapa
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This book offers an original analysis of private copying and determines its actual scope as an area of end-user freedom. The basis of this examination is Article 5(2)(b) of the Copyright Directive. Despite the fact that copying for private and non-commercial use is permitted by virtue of this article...
by Sekicho
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Copyrights are rights to copy, distribute, display and perform creative works. They are one of the basic forms of intellectual property.
This text discusses copyright law as it applies in the United States. This concise presentation necessarily omits a number of important provisions of a very complex area of law.
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...
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...
Social Media Law
A Handbook of Cases and Uses
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The second edition of Social Media Law is substantially updated, reflecting new case law and legislative developments. Social Media Law examines social and new media issues through the lens of law and policy. With the recent explosion in social networking and the use of social media and new media,...
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 Helen Sedwick
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Self-Publisher’s Legal Handbook is the first step-by-step guide to the legal issues of self-publishing. Attorney and self-published author Helen Sedwick uses 30 years of legal experience to show writers how to stay out of court and at their desks. Topics include:
• Business set-up. From DBAs to...
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...
Copyright Handbook, The
What Every Writer Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
If you work with words, you need this book!
Cutting Across Media
Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage, and Copyright Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
In this collection of essays, leading academics, critics, and artists historicize collage and appropriation tactics that cut across diverse media and genres. They take up issues of appropriation in the popular and the avant-garde, in altered billboards and the work of the renowned painter Chris Ofili,...