Intellectual Property category: 394 books
Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle
Theft Law in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Theft causes greater economic injury than any other criminal offense. Yet fundamental questions about what should count as stealing remain unresolved. Green assesses our legal framework at a time when our economy commodifies intangibles (intellectual property, information, ideas, identities, and virtual property) and theft grows more sophisticated.
by Lee Lytton
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Knowing all the ins and outs of property law from state to state can be a difficult and time-consuming task. When issues arise related to ownership and tenancy of property, it is important for lawyers, real estate brokers and agents, and landmen to have an efficient and comprehensive way to both understand...
The State of Play
Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
The State of Play presents an essential first step in understanding how new digital worlds will change the future of our universe. Millions of people around the world inhabit virtual words: multiplayer online games where characters live, love, buy, trade, cheat, steal, and have every possible kind...
Science, Colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples
The Cultural Politics of Law and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
At the intersection of indigenous studies, science studies, and legal studies lies a tense web of political issues of vital concern for the survival of indigenous nations. Numerous historians of science have documented the vital role of late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science as a part of...
Laws of Creation
Property Rights in the World of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Cass and Hylton explain how technological advances strengthen the case for intellectual property laws, and argue convincingly that IP laws help create a wealthier, more successful, more innovative society than alternative legal systems. Ignoring the social value of IP rights and making what others create “free” would be a costly mistake indeed.
The Current State of Domain Name Regulation
Domain Names as Second Class Citizens in a Mark-Dominated World
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
In this book Konstantinos Komaitis identifies a tripartite problem – intellectual, institutional and ethical – inherent in the domain name regulation culture. Using the theory of property, Komaitis discusses domain names as sui generis ‘e-property’ rights and analyses the experience of the...
The British Patent System during the Industrial Revolution 1700–1852
From Privilege to Property
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The British Patent System during the Industrial Revolution 1700–1852 presents a fundamental reassessment of the contribution of patenting to British industrialisation during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It shows that despite the absence of legislative reform, the British patent system...
Terms of Use
Negotiating the Jungle of the Intellectual Commons
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2008
As a result of the digital revolution and the ever-increasing use of the internet, discussions around the conflict between copyright and the public domain are more prevalent than ever before. While these discussions have been hotly debated by legal scholars and in blogs and online forums, Terms of...
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...
Intellectual Privacy
Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Most people believe that the right to privacy is inherently at odds with the right to free speech. Courts all over the world have struggled with how to reconcile the problems of media gossip with our commitment to free and open public debate for over a century. The rise of the Internet has made this...
Copyright User Rights
Contracts and the Erosion of Property
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This is the first book to offer an in-depth investigation of the unsettled nature, scope and dynamics of copyright user rights in an increasingly dematerialized environment. Combining a detailed theoretical framework with practical applications, the book provides a comprehensive perspective on copyright...
by Orly Lobel
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
“A hair-raising account of a Barbie Dreamhouse-size Jarndyce and Jarndyce.”—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker
This provocative work spotlights the legal battles between behemoth Mattel and audacious MGA over incredibly successful toys and the ownership of an idea. Law professor Orly Lobel deeply...
Patent, Copyright & Trademark
An Intellectual Property Desk Reference
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
The ideal desk reference for the next Eli Whitney, Amy Tan, or Elon Musk.
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...