Property category: 600 books
The Right of Publicity
Privacy Reimagined for a Public World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Who controls how one’s identity is used by others? This legal question, centuries old, demands greater scrutiny in the Internet age. Jennifer Rothman uses the right of publicity—a little-known law, often wielded by celebrities—to answer that question, not just for the famous but for everyone....
Intellectual Property Management
A Guide for Scientists, Engineers, Financiers, and Managers
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This concise introduction to European patent law and global patent perspectives combines the legal and economic perspectives to adopt a unique approach that serves both inventors -- engineers and scientists -- as well as financiers and economists.
Written by experts with first-hand knowledge this...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Landmark Cases in Land Law is the sixth volume in the Landmark Cases series of collected essays on leading cases (previous volumes in the series having covered Restitution, Contract, Tort, Equity and Family Law). The eleven cases in this volume cover the period 1834 to 2011, although, interestingly,...
by Peter Luther, Alan Moran
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Well-selected and authoritative, Palgrave Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy to use. They are ideal for use in exams.
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.
by Bruce Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Legal Issues in Cultural Heritage Management
A Polish Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This book presents the legal institutions involved in cultural heritage protection from a Polish point of view. Its authors set out the legal framework of cultural management in the context of private and public law. They analyse the Anglo-Saxon concept of trusts, fideicommissum set up by aristocratic...
by Susy Frankel
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.
The Colorado Doctrine
Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Making extensive use of archival and other primary sources, David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the “appropriation doctrine,” a system of private rights in water, was part of a radical attack on monopoly and corporate power in the arid West. Schorr describes how Colorado miners, irrigators,...
by Tim Havard
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Grounds of the Immaterial
A Conflict-Based Approach to Intellectual Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book applies a novel conflict-based approach to the notions of ‘idea’, ‘concept’, ‘invention’ and ‘immateriality’ in the legal regime of intellectual property rights by turning to the adversarial legal practices in which they occur. In doing so, it provides extensive ethnographies...
Geographical Indications at the Crossroads of Trade, Development, and Culture
Focus on Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Historically, few topics have proven to be so controversial in international intellectual property as the protection of geographical indications (GIs). The adoption of TRIPS in 1994 did not resolve disagreements, and countries worldwide continue to quarrel today as to the nature, the scope, and the...
Governing Digitally Integrated Genetic Resources, Data, and Literature
Global Intellectual Property Strategies for a Redesigned Microbial Research Commons
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
The free exchange of microbial genetic information is an established public good, facilitating research on medicines, agriculture, and climate change. However, over the past quarter-century, access to genetic resources has been hindered by intellectual property claims from developed countries under...
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...