Copyright law

In our age of unlimited, around-the-clock communication, copyright literacy has become a must for almost all of us, and everyoneinformed or notseems to have strong opinions about the rights of copyright owners and the rights of copyright users.

This book is a research guide and bibliography of Parliamentary material, including the Old Scottish Parliament and the Old Irish Parliament, relating to patents and inventions from the early seventeenth century to 1976.

In the aftermath of apartheid, South Africa undertook an ambitious revision of its intellectual property system.

Das juristische Schlagwort "Schöpferprinzip" ist eng mit der Frage verbunden, wer originärer Inhaber von Immaterialgüterrechten sein kann.

Conventional wisdom holds that robust enforcement of intellectual property (IP) right suppress competition and innovation by shielding incumbents against the entry threats posed by smaller innovators.

Examining a neglected aspect of international copyright law, this book highlights the obligation on nations to maintain broad copyright exceptions.

Der Konflikt von digitaler Ubiquität und territorial gebundenen Urheberrechten ist jeder Online-Nutzung immanent.

["Restrictions of trade with cultural property and ownership guarantee"]
Cultural assets such as paintings, sculptures and archaeological objects are commodities - merchandise if you will.

Featuring experts from around the world, this volume provides a systematic and comparative study of copyright law in major jurisdictions.

This book explores how restrictive copyright laws deny access to information for the print disabled, despite equality laws protecting access.

The Supreme Court of the United States in Feist v.

Comprehensively discusses different aspects of the property metaphor in relation to intellectual property in a transnational perspective.

The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled is a watershed development in the fields of intellectual property and human rights.

Fully revised and updated, Archival Storytelling second edition is a timely, pragmatic look at the use of audiovisual materials available to filmmakers and scholars, from the earliest photographs of the 19th century to the work of media makers today.

Die BGB-Vertragstypen in der im BGB normierten Form bilden die rechtlichen Anforderungen von Softwareprojekten im Scrum-Verfahren nicht hinreichend ab.

The act of creation requires us to remix existing cultural content and yet recent sweeping changes to copyright laws have criminalized the creative act as a violation of corporate rights in a commodified world.

Choreographing Copyright is a new historical and cultural analysis of U.

This book traces the development of the fashion industry, providing insight into the business and, in particular, its interrelations with copyright law.

Fully revised and updated, Archival Storytelling second edition is a timely, pragmatic look at the use of audiovisual materials available to filmmakers and scholars, from the earliest photographs of the 19th century to the work of media makers today.

When the British Empire enacted copyright law for its colonies and called it colonial, or Imperial, copyright, it had its own interests in mind.

It was a time when music fans copied and traded recordings without permission.

[T]his volume provides a wealth of information for all librarians dealing with copyright.

Copyright enforcement is a very significant area in IPR, which protects the authors, performers and even computer programmers and performers.

Free speech, privacy and truth on the internet are linked in a messy, unruly way that needs to be embraced.

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes behandeln das breite Spektrum historischer Problemstellungen und bis heute ungelöster Fragen eines interessengerechten Urheberrechts.

Metaphors, moral panics, folk devils, Jack Valenti, Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, predictable irrationality, and free market fundamentalism are a few of the topics covered in this lively, unflinching examination of the Copyright Wars: the pitched battles over new technology, business models, and most of all, consumers.

The book illuminates the legal and business history of the American theatre through new archival discoveries.

Staatliche Stellen berufen sich zunehmend auf das Urheberrecht, um die Veröffentlichung von Geheimdokumenten durch Presseunternehmen und Whistleblowingplattformen zu verhindern.

As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used to generate inventions and creative works, a critical question to be addressed is whether intellectual property (IP) laws should protect such works.

Intellectual Property Branding in the Developing World identifies success stories in the areas of intellectual property (IP) and branding for non-technological innovation in the developing world.

In the history of British patent law, the role of Parliament is often side-lined.

Das Werk vergleicht die unterschiedlichen Ausgangslagen und Ansichten zur Anwendbarkeit des Erschöpfungsgrundsatzes im Online-Bereich in Deutschland, der EU, China sowie den USA.

Choreographing Copyright is a new historical and cultural analysis of U.

This books offers a sophisticated analysis of how China''s copyright system is intertwined with censorship and international copyright law.

Copyright is not one-size-fits-all.

How do digital technologies transform music?

First published in 1991, this volume aims to take a close look at the laws of 27 countries to locate what others value in the realm of legal deposit and heighten our awareness of its importance for free access to information.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

This is a detailed account of interpretative practices and the ''law in action'' that draws lessons for the drafting of copyright exceptions.

This is the first book to offer an in-depth investigation of the unsettled nature, scope and dynamics of copyright user rights in an increasingly dematerialized environment.

From concept to distribution, those involved in film and programme making come into contact with many legal topics.

Mass digitization of texts, images, and other creative works promises to unprecedentedly enhance access to culture and knowledge.