The General Exception Clauses of the TRIPS Agreement: Promoting Sustainable Development (Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law)

The General Exception Clauses of the TRIPS Agreement: Promoting Sustainable Development (Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law)
by Edson Beas Rodrigues Jr
Publication Date: April 16, 2012

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The general exception clauses of the TRIPS Agreement of the World Trade Organization permit exceptions to copyrights and to the rights conferred by trademarks, industrial designs and patents. These clauses are intended to facilitate access to diverse forms of proprietary knowledge and therefore foster the interdependent pillars of sustainable development: economic progress, realization of human rights and the conservation of the environment. In this book, Edson Beas Rodrigues, Jr argues that the TRIPS Agreement, in its current configuration, does not hinder the establishment of exceptions to intellectual property rights, devised to promote vital socioeconomic interests such as the freedom to carry out creative and inventive activities, freedom of expression, the strengthening of free competition, and increased access to educational materials by underprivileged students and to technical knowledge for humanitarian purposes.

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Music Law: Run Your Band's Business

Music Law: Run Your Band's Business
by Richard Stim
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If you belong to a band and love the art of your job, but sing the blues when it comes to the business, you need Music Law. Composed by musician and lawyer Richard Stim, the book explains how to: find the right manager; buy, insure and maintain equipment; get gigs and get paid; tour on a budget; use samples; do covers legally; protect your copyright; trademark your band’s name; choose a recording studio; sell your music; manage your website; understand record contracts; deal with taxes. The best guide available for bands today, Music Law provides all the legal information and practical advice musicians need to keep from getting burned. All legal forms and agreements included, as tearouts and on CDROM.

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• Published on: 2009-10-05
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Emanuel Law Outlines: Intellectual Property

Emanuel Law Outlines: Intellectual Property
by Margreth Barrett
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The most trusted name in law school outlines, Emanuel Law Outlines support your class preparation, provide reference for your outline creation, and supply a comprehensive breakdown of topic matter for your entire study process. Created by Steven Emanuel, these course outlines have been relied on by generations of law students. Each title includes both capsule and detailed versions of the critical issues and key topics you must know to master the course. Also included are exam questions with model answers, an alpha-list of cases, and a cross reference table of cases for all of the leading casebooks.

Emanuel Law Outline Features:

• #1 outline choice among law students
• Comprehensive review of all major topics
• Capsule summary of all topics
• Cross-reference table of cases
• Time-saving format
• Great for exam prep

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• Published on: 2008-03-19
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• 528 pages

Photographer's Survival Manual: A Legal Guide for Artists in the Digital Age (Lark Photography Book)

Photographer's Survival Manual: A Legal Guide for Artists in the Digital Age (Lark Photography Book)
by Edward C. Greenberg, Jack Reznicki
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Now more than ever, anyone who wants to make money with a digital camera needs this authoritative and approachable guide. Written by the president of the Professional Photographers of America, and a leading New York copyright attorney, it provides photographers and visual artists with the most authoritative legal advice available. Everything is covered, from contracts, subcontracts, releases, and permissions to the copyright laws and all the steps artists should take to register and protect their work. Find out how to use copyright to protect your work from infringement, insure you are properly paid for your work, and how to proceed if your rights are infringed upon.

 

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• Published on: 2010-06-01
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The Laws of War and 21st Century Conflict

The Laws of War and 21st Century Conflict
by E.L. Gaston
Publication Date: March 27, 2012

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This compendium explores how international law deals with this so-called new warfare from the rise in global terrorism, to insurgency and counter-insurgency campaigns, to the resurgence or mercenaries and the privatization of the use of force. Though many of these phenomena are not new per se (terrorism, insurgency, and other asymmetric tactics have long been in use) their predominance within 21st century conflict over the state-on-state, regular warfare that the laws of war were designed for has created new dilemmas for regulating war. Efforts of state actors to deal with these 21st century threats have equally challenged the basic premises of the laws of war. While many have called for a revamp of existing laws of war, a decade after the September 11 attacks there still remains little consensus on how international law should deal with 21st century threats. This book explores some of the critiques of the laws of war framework, suggestions for reform, and existing gray areas that persist in the regulation of armed conflict.

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• Published on: 2012-03-27
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• 232 pages

Trademark: Legal Care for Your Business & Product Name

Trademark: Legal Care for Your Business & Product Name
by Stephen Elias Attorney
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With the advent of the Internet, small business owners and innovators of every stripe need to be everwatchful when choosing and protecting their names, logos, packaging and slogans. Fortunately, there's help. Trademark explains, step by step, how to: choose a distinctive name that competitors can't copy, conduct a trademark search, register a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, protect and maintain a trademark, handle trademark disputes outside the courtroom, understand the trademark issues affecting domain names and the Internet.

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• Published on: 2010-09-07
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Examples & Explanations: Copyright, Third Edition

Examples & Explanations: Copyright, Third Edition
by Stephen M. McJohn

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Using proven Examples & Explanations pedagogy, this comprehensive study guide provides students with a short account of the law, followed by a variety of concrete examples and explanations that help reinforce and give substance to the key rules and concepts in copyright law. Its flexible organization lets students move freely between topics that range from classic copyright cases, such as rights of authorship, to areas of contemporary interest, including Internet use, open source licensing and online music rights.

The Third Edition presents a wide range of new case law, examples and explanations, including online copyright infringement, boundaries of fair use, the legality of hacking the iPhone and the moral rights of artists.

Hallmark features:

Proven Examples and Explanations pedagogy reinforces key rules and concepts.

Comprehensive coverage of aspects of copyright law, together with international and theoretical underpinnings of the law.

Builds student understanding step by step and allows students to work with fact settings--key to understanding and applying copyright law.

Up to date Supreme Court cases and legislation.

Covers developing judicial interpretation in such areas as originality, the idea/expression distinction, fair use, ownership, and scope of exclusive rights.

Addresses areas of contemporary interest, such as music, open source licensing, and Internet issues.

Short sections covering related state law doctrines and federal preemption.

Flexible organization allows students to study chapters in any order.

The Third Edition has been updated to include:

The Supreme Court's view of the constitutional limits on the scope of copyright legislation.

Cases on the extent of moral rights of artists.

Multiple new cases covering:

The boundaries of fair use.

Licensing issues.

Work made for hire in the startup company context.

Rights of buyers of copyrighted products and services.

Limits on digital rights management systems.

ISP liability for customer copyright infringement.

Limits on damages for downloading.

Enforcement of online copyright infringement--a new business model.

Legality of jailbreaking the iPhone.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #21045 in Books
• Published on: 2012-02-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

The Tech Contracts Handbook: Software Licenses and Technology Services Agreements for Lawyers and Businesspeople

The Tech Contracts Handbook: Software Licenses and Technology Services Agreements for Lawyers and Businesspeople
by David Tollen
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This is a practical and accessible reference book and training manual on IT contracts. It's a clause-by-clause "how to" guide on software licenses and technology services agreements, covering the issues at stake and offering negotiation tips and sample contract language.

This handbook is for both lawyers and businesspeople, including contract managers, procurement officers, corporate counsel, salespeople, and anyone else responsible for getting IT deals done. Perhaps most important, this book uses simple English, like a good contract.

Topics covered include:

•     Software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing agreements
•     Warranties
•     Indemnities
•     Open source software
•     Service level agreements
•     Nondisclosure agreements
•     Limitations of liability
•     Internet and e-commerce contracts
•     Software escrow
•     Data security
•     Copyright licensing
•     And much more

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #24688 in Books
• Published on: 2011-05-16
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Arresting Communication: Essential Interaction Skills for Law Enforcement

Arresting Communication: Essential Interaction Skills for Law Enforcement
Jim Glennon (Author)
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Arresting Communication is a book that is entertaining, funny, realistic, and right on point. It explains the essential principles of interaction while providing the skills necessary for those who wish to succeed in the law enforcment (or any other) profession. Whether in the field of public safety or for those private industry, this book should be a mandatory read; it could save your career and perhaps...your life.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #131561 in eBooks
• Published on: 2012-03-20
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Patent Valuation: Improving Decision Making through Analysis (Wiley Finance)

Patent Valuation: Improving Decision Making through Analysis (Wiley Finance)
by William J. Murphy, John L. Orcutt, Paul C. Remus
Publication Date: May 8, 2012

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A practical resource for valuing patents that is accessible to the complete spectrum of decision makers in the patent process

In today's economy, patents tend to be the most important of the intellectual property (IP) assets. It is often the ability to create, manage, defend, and extract value from patents that can distinguish competitive success and significant wealth creation from competitive failure and economic waste. Patent Valuation enhances the utility and value of patents by providing IP managers, IP creators, attorneys, and government officials with a useable resource that allows them to use actual or implied valuations when making patent-related decisions.

• Involves a combination of techniques for describing patent valuation
• Includes descriptions of various topics, illustrative cases, step-by-step valuation techniques, user-friendly procedures and checklists, and examples
• Serves as a useable resource that allows IP managers to use actual or implied valuations when making patent-related decisions

One of the most fundamental premises of the book is that these valuation skills can be made accessible to each of the various decision makers in the patent process. Patent Valuation involves narrative descriptions of the various topics, illustrative cases, step-by-step valuation techniques, user-friendly procedures and checklists, and an abundance of examples to demonstrate the more complex concepts.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #570705 in Books
• Published on: 2012-05-08
• Original language: English
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Intellectual Property,Patents,Trademarks, and Copyright in a Nutshell, 5th (In a Nutshell (West Publishing))

Intellectual Property,Patents,Trademarks, and Copyright in a Nutshell, 5th (In a Nutshell (West Publishing))
by Arthur R. Miller, Michael H. Davis
Publication Date: March 28, 2012

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Authors Michael Davis and famed Harvard professor Arthur Miller provide authoritative coverage on the foundations of patent protection, patentability, and the patenting process. Presents the fundamentals of trademarks and copyright laws. Text further addresses torts and property, antitrust and government regulation, concepts of federalism and state, and federal conflicts.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #392541 in Books
• Published on: 2012-03-28
• Original language: English
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• 500 pages

How to Make Your Own Patent Drawing and Save Thousands: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply

How to Make Your Own Patent Drawing and Save Thousands: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply
Jack Koller (Author)
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The full cost of filing and receiving a patent can be anywhere from $2,000 to $10,000 depending on what you need to complete the process. But, if you have the right tools and the right knowledge of everything the government needs from you in a patent drawing, you can bypass much of what has plagued companies and inventors everywhere for decades. This book has been designed to guide you in the process of developing and producing your own patent drawings in a manner that ensures you can skip over an entire overly expensive step in the process, designing your own drawings and moving that much closer to your patents. You will learn the basics of starting to draw and how to start using various perspectives to and drawing methods to capture real world objects. Learn perspective foreshortening and how to effectively use a pen, ruler, and other drawing instruments. Learn the basics of drawing with a computer and how to start using a camera to supplement your drawings. Learn what tools you need for your drawings and how to start tracing things to speed up the process. Learn how to draw from your imagination and how to draw to scale effectively. You will learn how to use graphical symbols and how to practice enough to get the process correct. The best patent drawers in the industry have been interviewed and their advice is included in this guide to help you learn how they got started and what they recommend to effectively present your imagery to the Patent office. You will learn how to use CAD software, how to start drawing utility patents, and design patents. And most importantly, you will learn what the various standards of work are for patent drawings, from mediums and arrangement to lines, legends, scale, and copyright issues. If you are considering getting a patent and are not excited to pay anywhere between $2,000 and $10,000 for your patent drawings this book is for you.

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• Published on: 2012-04-10
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The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy, and Reputation

The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy, and Reputation
by Saul Levmore, Martha C. Nussbaum
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Publication Date: May 7, 2012

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The Internet has been romanticized as a zone of freedom. The alluring combination of sophisticated technology with low barriers to entry and instantaneous outreach to millions of users has mesmerized libertarians and communitarians alike. Lawmakers have joined the celebration, passing the Communications Decency Act, which enables Internet Service Providers to allow unregulated discourse without danger of liability, all in the name of enhancing freedom of speech. But an unregulated Internet is a breeding ground for offensive conduct.

At last we have a book that begins to focus on abuses made possible by anonymity, freedom from liability, and lack of oversight. The distinguished scholars assembled in this volume, drawn from law and philosophy, connect the absence of legal oversight with harassment and discrimination. Questioning the simplistic notion that abusive speech and mobocracy are the inevitable outcomes of new technology, they argue that current misuse is the outgrowth of social, technological, and legal choices. Seeing this clearly will help us to be better informed about our options.

In a field still dominated by a frontier perspective, this book has the potential to be a real game changer. Armed with example after example of harassment in Internet chat rooms and forums, the authors detail some of the vile and hateful speech that the current combination of law and technology has bred. The facts are then treated to analysis and policy prescriptions. Read this book and you will never again see the Internet through rose-colored glasses.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #209404 in Books
• Published on: 2012-05-07
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• 312 pages

How to Fix Copyright

How to Fix Copyright
by William Patry
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Do copyright laws directly cause people to create works they otherwise wouldn't create? Do those laws directly put substantial amounts of money into authors' pockets? Does culture depend on copyright? Are copyright laws a key driver of competitiveness and of the knowledge economy?

These are the key questions William Patry addresses in How to Fix Copyright. We all share the goals of increasing creative works, ensuring authors can make a decent living, furthering culture and competitiveness and ensuring that knowledge is widely shared, but what role does copyright law actually play in making these things come true in the real world? Simply believing in lofty goals isn't enough. If we want our goals to come true, we must go beyond believing in them; we must ensure they come true, through empirical testing and adjustment.

Patry argues that laws must be consistent with prevailing markets and technologies because technologies play a large (although not exclusive) role in creating consumer demand; markets then satisfy that demand. Patry discusses how copyright laws arose out of eighteenth-century markets and technology, the most important characteristic of which was artificial scarcity. Artificial scarcity was created by the existence of a small number gatekeepers, by relatively high barriers to entry, and by analog limitations on copying.

Markets and technologies change, in a symbiotic way, Patry asserts. New technologies create new demand, requiring new business models. The new markets created by the Internet and digital tools are the greatest ever: Barriers to entry are low, costs of production and distribution are low, the reach is global, and large sums of money can be made off of a multitude of small transactions. Along with these new technologies and markets comes the democratization of creation; digital abundance is replacing analog artificial scarcity.

The task of policymakers is to remake our copyright laws to fit our times: our copyright laws, based on the eighteenth century concept of physical copies, gatekeepers, and artificial scarcity, must be replaced with laws based on access not ownership of physical goods, creation by the masses and not by the few, and global rather than regional markets. Patry's view is that of a traditionalist who believes in the goals of copyright but insists that laws must match the times rather than fight against the present and the future.

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• 336 pages

True Stories of Censorship Battles in America's Libraries

True Stories of Censorship Battles in America's Libraries
by Valerie Nye, Kathy Barco
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Intellectual freedom is a core value of librarianship, but fighting to keep controversial materials on the shelves can sometimes feel like a lonely battle. And not all censorship controversies involve the public objecting to a book in the collection libraries are venues for displays and meetings, and sometimes library staff themselves are tempted to preemptively censor a work. Those facing censorship challenges can find support and inspiration in this book, which compiles dozens of stories from library front lines. Edifying and enlightening, this collection

• Tells the stories of several librarians who withstood difficult circumstances to champion intellectual freedom
• Touches on prickly issues such as age-appropriateness, some librarians temptation to preemptively censor, sensitive cultural expressions, and criminality in the library
• Presents case studies of defenses that were unsuccessful, so librarians facing similar challenges can learn from these defeats
  

There are fewer situations more stressful in a librarian's professional life than being personally confronted with a demand to remove a book from the shelves or not knowing how to respond to other kinds of censorship challenges. Reading this book will help fortify and inform those in the fray.

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• Published on: 2012-01-16
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• 176 pages

The Biz: The Basic Business, Legal and Financial Aspects of the Film Industry.

The Biz: The Basic Business, Legal and Financial Aspects of the Film Industry.
by Schuyler M. Moore

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #37668 in Books
• Published on: 2011-02
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Burning the Ships: Transforming Your Company's Culture Through Intellectual Property Strategy

Burning the Ships: Transforming Your Company's Culture Through Intellectual Property Strategy
by Marshall Phelps, David Kline
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Now in paperback, the inside story of "the greatest transformation of Microsoft since it became a multinational company"

Marshall Phelps's remarkable eyewitness story offers lessons for any executive struggling with today's innovation and intellectual property challenges. Burning the Ships offers Phelps's dramatic behind-the-scenes account of how he overcame internal resistance and got Microsoft to open up channels of collaboration with other firms.

• Discover the never-before-told details of Microsoft's secret two-year negotiations with Red Hat and Novell that led to the world's first intellectual property peace treaty and technical collaboration with the open source community
• Witness the sometimes-nervous support Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer gave to Phelps in turning their company around 180 degrees from market bully to collaborative industry partner
• Offers an extraordinary behind-the-scenes view of the high-level deliberations of the company's senior-most executives, the internal debates and conflicts among executives and rank-and-file employees alike over the company's new collaborative direction

There are lessons in this book for executives in every industry-most especially on the role that intellectual property can play in liberating previously untapped value in a company and opening up powerful new business opportunities in today's era of "open innovation." Here is a powerful inside account of the dawn of a new era at what is arguably the most powerful technology company on earth.

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• Published on: 2010-12-21
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• 186 pages

Examples & Explanations: Intellectual Property, Fourth Edition

Examples & Explanations: Intellectual Property, Fourth Edition
by Stephen M. McJohn
Publication Date: April 10, 2012

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Using proven Examples & Explanations pedagogy, this comprehensive study guide provides students with a short account of the law, followed by a variety of concrete examples and explanations that help reinforce and give substance to the key rules and concepts in intellectual property law. Its flexible organization lets students move freely between topics that range from copyrights, to patents, trademarks and trade secrets. Keyed to all major IP survey courses and using compelling examples, Intellectual Property: Examples & Explanations is a straightforward guide that gives students a solid grounding in this dynamic area of law.

The Fourth Edition has been substantially updated to include new case law, explanations and examples across a wide variety of intellectual property issues. Several new Supreme Court cases have been added to the section on patents; the copyright section now includes constitutional limits on the scope of copyright legislation and multiple cases on the boundaries of fair use and the extent of moral rights of artists; new material on limits on trademark protections, ISP liability and cybersquatting are included in the section on trademarks; and new issues defining trade secrets in the Internet Age round out the Fourth Edition.

Hallmark features:

Complete coverage of core topics in intellectual property

Keyed to the major IP survey casebooks, with enough examples to reinforce any gaps in the text coverage.

Proven Examples & Explanations pedagogy helps reinforce key rules and concepts.

Focuses on the fundamentals, concentrating on basic rules and concepts and avoiding more sophisticated, specialized topics.

Flexible organization adapts to any course structure and allows students to work independently, brushing up on specific topics as needed.

The Fourth Edition has been substantially updated with the following new material:

Copyright:

Constitutional limits on the scope of copyright legislation.

Extent of moral rights of artists.

Multiple cases on the boundaries of fair use; licensing issues; work made for hire in the startup company context; rights of buyers of copyrighted products and services, limits on digital rights management systems.

New Patent law:

Several Supreme Court cases, including patentability of business methods, software, and genes; ownership of university inventions; standards for invalidating patents; standard for secondary liability.

Other cases on liability for inaccurately marking a product as patented and scope of patent protection for biotech inventions.

Coverage of 2011 revision of patent statute by America Invents Act

Trademark:

Limits on trademark protection for functional items.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #215779 in Books
• Published on: 2012-04-10
• Binding: Paperback
• 574 pages