Intellectual property law

This book draws on a wide selection of interdisciplinary literature discussing complex adaptive systems - including scholarship from economics, political science, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and religion - to apply general complexity tenets to the institutions, conceptual framework, and theoretical justifications of the copyright system, both in the United States and internationally.

Leading international scholars provide comprehensive coverage of the law as it relates to algorithms and artificial intelligence.

Since the last edition ten years ago the pace of technological and legal change has stepped up even more than before with previous editions.

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

Copyright laws, along with other Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), constitute the legal foundation for the "e;global knowledge-based economy"e; and copyright law now plays an increasingly important role in the creation of business fortunes, the access to and dissemination of knowledge, and human development in general.

This book analyses the history of the international patent regime and the life science industries, both of which can be traced back to the late 19th century.

What drives innovation?

Ten years after the Freedom of Information Act 2000 came into force in the UK, the implementation and case law related to the Act remains contentious.

Extreme copyright produces extreme consumption: ten hours a day, lost to screens.

Are intellectual property rights like other property rights?

This book covers the different aspects, such as patents, trademarks and copyright of Intellectual Property (IP) from a more practical business perspective.

The second edition of this groundbreaking book looks at the key debates and issues in media law, a fast-developing area of scholarship that raises many high-profile and controversial questions.

The protection of intellectual property rights has become a major concern in recent years.

International Trademark Classification: A Guide to the Nice Agreement provides practical guidance from a leading expert offering help for trademark and intellectual property attorneys on how to properly classify goods and services in trademark applications.

In recent years, Intellectual Property Rights - both in the form of patents and copyrights - have expanded in their coverage, the breadth and depth of protection, and the tightness of their enforcement.

Privacy law isn''t working.

Creativity is at the vanguard of contemporary capitalism, valorised as a form of capital in its own right.

"e;Brazil is one of the world's most productive crucibles for new ideas and practices in innovation and collaboration.

This book examines the way in which this important area of law is constructed by the legal system.

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.

Blockbuster lawsuits, artificial intelligence, backroom deals, millions in lobbying dollars and grand Silicon Valley idealism - the story of Google and copyright law is action-packed.

This book explores the economic analysis of intellectual property law, with a special emphasis on the Law and Economics of informational goods in light of the past decade's technological revolution.

Intellectual property has always played a key role supporting the protection and exploitation of technology and brands of businesses operating in the energy sector.

This volume examines the tensions between two fundamentally competing demands made of IP law.

This book will be of interest for all jurists doing research and working practically in intellectual property law and international economic law.

Multimedia technology is a key component of the Digital Society.

Digital Pirates examines the unauthorized creation, distribution, and consumption of movies and music in Brazil.

The book explores how patent assertion entities, also known as patent trolls, negatively affect competition and the economy.

Patent Transactions in the Life Sciences is designed to provide guidance on the structure and detail of those agreements in the life sciences sector that are based on its most important assets - patents and know-how.

"e;An invaluable resource giving librarians the tools to assess copyright issues, risks, and approaches both domestically and internationally.

Whether you're a patent examiner, patent attorney, commercial patent searcher, patent liaison, IP librarian, law professor, or competitive intelligence analyst, you'll find Patent Searching: Tools and Techniques to be just the guide you have been waiting for, with a range of approaches to patent searching that will be useful to you regardless of your technical expertise or role in the intellectual property community.

Economists advise that the law should seek efficiency.

Written by a working journalist with over 20 years' experience, Law for Journalists is designed to equip you with a solid understanding of the day-to-day legal principles and practices you will need throughout your career.

This title focuses specifically on the role, action, and legacy of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the field of copyright, also by providing an exclusive survey that covers two decades (1998 - 2018) of CJEU decisions in this area of the law.

The recording industry has famously been transformed by technology throughout its entire history.

Over the past decade, the scope of copyright and patent law has grown significantly, strengthening property rights, even when such rights seem to infringe upon other, more basic, priorities.

Patents lie at the heart of modern competition policy.

The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress.

We live in an age in which expressive, informational, and technological subject matter are becoming increasingly important.

There has been little or no study on trademark laws in Asia on a cross-jurisdictional level.

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 early nineteenth century, the American commercial marketplace was a chaotic, unregulated environment in which knock-offs and outright frauds thrived.

An examination of how the patent system works, imperfections and all, to incentivize innovation Do patents facilitate or frustrate innovation?

This book analyses the phenomenon of digitally mediated property and considers how it problematises the boundary between human and nonhuman actors.