Property category: 600 books
by Toshiko Takenaka, Christoph Rademacher, Jan Krauss
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The United States, Germany, and Japan constitute the three most significant patent systems, but there is considerable variation in procedure and jurisprudence between them. A comparison of these systems for patent enforcement can illuminate historical pathways and contemporary conduits to address...
Adcreep
The Case Against Modern Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Advertising is everywhere. By some estimates, the average American is exposed to over 3,000 advertisements each day. Whether we realize it or not, "adcreep"—modern marketing's march to create a world where advertising can be expected anywhere and anytime—has come, transforming not just...
Taking Liberties
The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In this eye-opening work, the president of the ACLU takes a hard look at the human and social costs of the War on Terror. Over a decade after 9/11, it is far from clear that the government's hastily adopted antiterrorist tactics--such as the Patriot Act--are keeping us safe, but it is increasingly...
Pop Song Piracy
Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The music industry’s ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers’ efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, Barry Kernfeld’s Pop Song Piracy details nearly...
Canadian Copyright
A Citizen's Guide, Second edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
In the age of easily downloadable culture, messages about copyright are ubiquitous. If you’re an artist, consumer, or teacher, copyright is likely a part of your everyday life. Completely updated, this revised edition of Canadian Copyright parses the Copyright Act and explains current Canadian copyright...
by Neil Weinstock Netanel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2008
Providing a vital economic incentive for much of society's music art and literature copyright is widely considered "the engine of free expression"--but it is also used to stifle news reporting political commentary historical scholarship and even artistic expression. In Copyright's Paradox...
Defend Yourself!
How to Protect Your Health, Your Money, And Your Rights in 10 Key Areas of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Talk Back / Fight Back
Patient, client, employee, small business owner, taxpayer, investor, consumer—it's time to defend yourself! Why should anyone tolerate an HMO not paying for his emergency surgery because he didn't give notice beforehand or accept a higher auto insurance rate because...
by Anna Mancini
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Nuestro derecho y su filosofía fueron concebidos para un mundo económico material signado por el reparto de la escasez y por la división en territorios. El enfoque positivo del derecho no se puede concebir sin el criterio territorial. Por ejemplo, siendo el criterio...
Moffat's Trusts Law 6th Edition
Text and Materials
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
This latest edition of Moffat's Trusts Law has been fully revised and updated to cover recent statutory developments and explores the impact of a wealth of new cases including the Supreme Court decisions in Pitt v. Holt (2013), FHR European Ventures v. Cedar Capital Partners (2014) and Williams v....
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Sovereignty, Black Power, Land Rights and the State
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
The 1972 Aboriginal Embassy was one of the most significant indigenous political demonstrations of the twentieth century. What began as a simple response to a Prime Ministerial statement on Australia Day 1972, evolved into a six-month political stand-off between radical Aboriginal activists and a...
The Expert versus the Object
Judging Fakes and False Attributions in the Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
The authenticity of visual art has always commanded the attention of experts, dealers, collectors, and the art-minded public. Is it "real" or "original" is a way of asking what am I buying? What do I own? What am I looking at? And today more sophisticated questions are being asked:...
by Paul Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
A gripping inside look at high-stakes lawyering, A Patent Lie is further evidence that Paul Goldstein is an emerging master of the legal thriller.After being forced from his high-powered Manhattan law firm, Michael Seeley—the tough-but-wounded hero of Errors and Omissions—has set up shop in his...
Cosmic Constitutional Theory
Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
American constitutional law has undergone a transformation. Issues once left to the people have increasingly become the province of the courts. Subjects as diverse as abortion rights and firearms regulations, health care reform and counterterrorism efforts, not to mention a millennial presidential...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions brings together leading copyright scholars and the field's foremost authorities to consider the critical role of copyright law in shaping the complex social, economic, and political interaction critical for cultural productivity and human flourishing....