Clearance and Copyright: Everything You Need to Know for Film and Television

Clearance and Copyright: Everything You Need to Know for Film and Television
by Michael C. Donaldson
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Now extensively revised, updated, and expanded, "Clearance and Copyright" is the industry-standard guide to almost every conceivable rights issue that filmmakers, videomakers, and television producers might encounter: from the initial acquisition of material through the rights situations that arise during pre-production, production, post-production and release. Legalese-free, well-written, it's a must-read for all producers, directors, and writers - whether they make feature films, shorts, documentaries, television programs, music videos, or Internet content - and those who advise them. Armed with this book, you can protect yourself and your work from disastrous legal actions and save thousands of dollars in attorney fees. You can even learn how to save money by exercising your rights to use certain materials without paying anyone.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #32700 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.03" h x 7.08" w x 8.94" l, 1.79 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 507 pages

Patent It Yourself: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Filing at the U.S. Patent Office

Patent It Yourself: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Filing at the U.S. Patent Office
by David Pressman Attorney
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Patent your creation with the world's bestselling guide to patents! Have a world-class idea? Ready to protect your invention from copycats? Then turn to the best resource available -- Patent It Yourself. Attorney David Pressman takes you through the entire patent process, providing scrupulously updated information and clear instructions to help you: determine if you can patent your invention; understand patent law; evaluate the commercial potential of your idea; perform your own patent search; file a provisional patent application; prepare a formal patent application; respond to patent examiners; amend an application; enforce and maintain your patent; market and license your invention. Thoroughly updated to reflect the latest changes in intellectual property law, this edition also provides the latest U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rules and forms. It includes up-to-date details on filing procedures and patent law, including a 2010 Supreme Court ruling on protection for business method and software patents. Whether you're new at the inventing game or a grizzled veteran, Patent It Yourself will save you grief, time and money.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #11308 in Books
• Published on: 2011-05-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.26" h x 8.42" w x 10.88" l, 3.10 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 624 pages

The Writer's Legal Guide: An Authors Guild Desk Reference

The Writer's Legal Guide: An Authors Guild Desk Reference
by Tad Crawford, Kay Murray
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"Sooner or later, any writer who publishes will encounter a legal question. The answer is probably this book. The Writer’s Legal Guide is sensible, concise, and clear. It belongs on every writer’s bookshelf." —Scott Turow, author of The Burden of Proof and Presumed Innocent.

The authors, both attorneys, draw on their years of experience on the front lines of advocating creators’ rights and economic interests to give readers a comprehensive survey of the legal and business questions facing anyone who writes professionally. In clear, friendly language, The Writer's Legal Guide explains recent changes in laws governing electronic rights, E-books, fair use, and publishing contracts, so that authors can best protect their interests. Other chapters cover:

- The law of copyright for creators
- Step-by-step copyright registration
- Accounting methods, record-keeping, taxes, and estate planning
- Avoiding legal liability
- Complying with fair use guidelines
- Using royalty collecting societies
- Obtaining permission to use quotes
- Negotiating periodical, syndication, film, television, play, and audio agreements
- Avoiding and resolving business disputes
- Limits of free expression
- Choosing self-publication

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #464963 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.97" h x .66" w x 6.02" l, 1.00 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

DMCA HANDBOOK for Virtual Worlds

DMCA HANDBOOK for Virtual Worlds
by Connie J. Mableson
Publication Date: February 29, 2012

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Virtual Worlds that allow residents to create user generated content (UGC) will store that UGC on servers owned or controlled by the virtual world owners. When infringing copies of virtual objects are stored on those servers, the virtual world owners may be liable for monetary damages for contributory copyright infringement. Content Creators routinely discover infringing copies of their virtual goods in virtual worlds. Primarily for Virtual World Owners using OpenSim, Unity, or other proprietary platforms, this Handbook provides a step-by-step guide with all the Forms so that Virtual World Owners may take full advantage of the safe harbors of the DMCA. Content Creators are also provided with a step-by-step process including all Forms necessary to remove infringing content from all virtual worlds including Second Life®, OpenSim, Unity, and proprietary worlds. The DMCA Handbook Provides: - A Step-by-Step breakdown of the DMCA process - A Policy Checklist to create the DMCA Policy - All of the Forms to implement the DMCA “notice and take-down” regime - Best practices for virtual world owners - Tips and instructions with Forms for Content Creators to remove infringing material Written by internet and copyright lawyer, Connie J. Mableson, the DMCA Handbook for Virtual World Owners is the only book of its kind available to assist Virtual World Owners and Content Creators with the DMCA process and regime.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #131177 in Books
• Published on: 2012-02-29
• Binding: Paperback
• 230 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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• Amazon Sales Rank: #28610 in Books
• Published on: 2010-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .40" h x 7.90" w x 9.90" l, 1.05 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Files: Law and Media Technology (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

Files: Law and Media Technology (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Cornelia Vismann, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young

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Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo. (What is not on file is not in the world.) Once files are reduced to the status of stylized icons on computer screens, the reign of paper files appears to be over. With the epoch of files coming to an end, we are free to examine its fundamental influence on Western institutions. From a media-theoretical point of view, subject, state, and law reveal themselves to be effects of specific record-keeping and filing practices. Files are not simply administrative tools; they mediate and process legal systems. The genealogy of the law described in Vismann's Files ranges from the work of the Roman magistrates to the concern over one's own file, as expressed in the context of the files kept by the East German State Security. The book concludes with a look at the computer architecture in which all the stacks, files, and registers that had already created order in medieval and early modern administrations make their reappearance.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #377924 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .61" h x 6.10" w x 8.90" l, .73 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

Information Technology Law

Information Technology Law
by Diane Rowland, Uta Kohl, Andrew Charlesworth

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This fourth edition of Information Technology Law has been completely revised in the light of developments within the field since publication of the first edition in 1997. Now dedicated to a more detailed analysis of and commentary on the latest developments within this burgeoning field of law, this new edition is an essential read for all those interested in the interface between law and technology and the effect of new technological developments on the law.

New additions to the fourth edition include:

• analysis of regulatory issues and jurisdictional questions
• specific consideration of intermediary liability
• developments in privacy and data protection
• extension of computer crime laws
• developments in software patents
• open source software and the legal implications.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #417816 in Books
• Published on: 2011-11-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.35 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 592 pages

Patent Searching Made Easy: How to do Patent Searches on the Internet and in the Library (Patent Searching Made Easy: How to Do Patent Searches on the Internet & in the Library)

Patent Searching Made Easy: How to do Patent Searches on the Internet and in the Library (Patent Searching Made Easy: How to Do Patent Searches on the Internet & in the Library)
by David Hitchcock
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Written by inventor David Hitchcock, this unique book explains step by step how to use an Internet browser to search U.S. patents It discusses how to classify an invention properly, and then, using that classification, find all relevant patents issued since 1971.Packed with helpful advice, Patent Searching Made Easy explains how to: conduct a full patent search in one of the 80 Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries (located in virtually every state)determine what resources are available for searching for patents filed in foreign countriesverify the patent status of ideas submitted to local businesses for developmentuse feebased patent search services on the Internet. This edition now includes information on searching the new Full Text Database on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Web site, which gives readers more options for searching on the Internet as well as more patent information than was previously available

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #330974 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .80" h x 6.90" w x 8.90" l, .95 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 265 pages