Trademark category: 266 books

Copyright law is a critical issue for authors, librarians, publishers, and information vendors. It is also a complex area, with many shades of gray. Librarians continually need to seek answers to questions ranging from the reproduction of copyrighted works for library users, through the performance...

Media literacy educators rely on the ability to make use of copyrighted materials from mass media, digital media and popular culture for both analysis and production activities. Whether they work in higher education, elementary and secondary schools, or in informal learning settings in libraries,...

How did the Depression-era folk-song collector Alan Lomax end up with a songwriting credit on Jay-Z’s song “Takeover”? Why doesn’t Clyde Stubblefield, the primary drummer on James Brown recordings from the late 1960s such as “Funky Drummer” and “Cold Sweat,” get paid for other musicians’...

We live in an age in which expressive, informational, and technological subject matter are becoming increasingly important. Intellectual property is the primary means by which the law seeks to regulate such subject matter. It aims to promote innovation and creativity, and in doing so to support solutions...

Patents are ubiquitous in contemporary life. Practically everything we use incorporates one or more patented inventions, and recent years have witnessed epic disputes over such matters as the patenting of human genes, the control of smartphone design and technology, the marketing of patented drugs,...

Understanding Copyright Law, Fair Use, Plagiarism, and Public Domain in Writing and Composition within the United States by Robert Alan King is a booklet with over 4,600 words. Before writing or composing any type of work for publication, it is crucial to first have a thorough understanding about...

Basic copyright laws and enforcements have been in effect for hundreds of years. However, laws with such extensive histories can often make understanding them complicated. As publishing moves into a digital arena, copyright laws have become increasingly complex. Authors, Copyright, and Publishing...

Petition for Certiorari Denied Without Opinion – Patent Case 98-1151.Patent Ownership and Assignment-Conflict of Federal and State Decisions-35 USC 261

The contents of Issue 3, January 2013, include: Article, "Politicians as Fiduciaries," by D. Theodore Rave Book Review, "Is Copyright Reform Possible?" by Pamela Samuelson Note, "The SEC Is Not an Independent Agency" In addition, student research explores...

Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before. Texts, audio, pictures and video can easily be produced, disseminated, used and remixed using devices that are increasingly user-friendly and affordable. However, along with this technological democratization comes a paradoxical...

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.

Copyright enforcement is a very significant area in IPR, which protects the authors, performers and even computer programmers and performers. The law in the topic was largely not settled till the Amendment Act, 2013 came in to existence. The Author has made earnest efforts to study the Amendment Bill...

International developments since the mid-1990s have signalled an awareness of the importance and validity of traditional knowledge and cultural property. The adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the establishment of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and...

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,...