Copyright category: 266 books

Articles in the Jan. 2012 issue are from such recognized scholars as Rebecca Tushnet, reimagining copyright law for images instead of the usual frame of text and words, and Carol Steiker, reviewing David Garland's new book on capital punishment and contingency. Student contributions explore the law...

Bill Gates said, Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. No one can deny the fact that intellectual property and its creation, protection, and management, has become a major area of concern for individuals and companies worldwide. Unprotected intellectual property has the shelf life...

Ideal for any professional with an entrepreneurial spirit, Monopoly Protection: The 90 Minute Guide to Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets presents a basic overview of these key components.Spend about an hour or so with patent strategist John S. Ferrell, Esq. as he draws upon...

The creative industry is a place where knowing your intellectual property rights is extremely important. There is a need for you to be able to identify what your rights are, how to protect those rights and also, equally important how not to infringe on the rights of other brands. This eBook...

This book studies the categories of subject matter protected by the main intellectual property (IP) regimes, including: the work (protected by copyright law), the invention (protected by patent law), the sign (protected by trade mark law) and the design (protected by designs law). The book makes sense...

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...

This complete survey of intellectual property law in the sports and entertainment industries evaluates the key connections between these arenas and provides an overview of trademark law for sports. The authors clearly explain the rights of publicity and privacy for entertainers and athletes, the ethical...

Intellectual property has traditionally been a matter for the legal professions, but with the shift to evidence-based policy, the global economic upheaval, and the advent of the digital age, intellectual property is increasingly informed by economic perspectives. This book is a comprehensive, critical...

Are you a medical professional who is curious about intellectual property? If so, this book is for you. By using terminology that is familiar to you and examples that are relevant to the medical profession, this guide will give you a concise overview of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret...

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.

“A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.” —National Review online   In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian...

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.

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...

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...