Download or read book Copyright Protection of Unpublished Works in the Common Law World written by Patrick Masiyakurima and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses copyright protection of unpublished works including letters, diaries, manuscripts, photographs, memoranda, sketches, private journals, government records and drafts intended for future publication. Under contemporary British copyright law, unpublished works are protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. In addition, the Berne Convention anticipates that unpublished works shall receive protection. While unpublished works are, in general, assimilated to the treatment of published ones, notable differences in the strength of protection afforded to published and unpublished works remain. It is the case that contemporary British copyright law confers stronger and longer protection on unpublished works. For instance, the unpublished status of a work assumes pivotal significance in the framework for determining: qualification for copyright protection, the extent of copyright protection, exceptions to copyright infringement and the remedies for copyright infringement. The principal aim of the book is to consider whether copyright in unpublished works is justified; a task which is prosecuted from historical, normative and legal perspectives. Although the book's primary focus is the treatment of unpublished works in Britain, it also relies extensively on materials from other Common Law jurisdictions. The book contributes to the understanding of why cumulative protection of unpublished works emerged, and how exceptions to rights in unpublished works evolved. Moreover, the analysis deployed in the book aids the task of applying the law to 'new circumstances'.
Download or read book Copyright Protection of Unpublished Works in the Common Law World written by Patrick Masiyakurima and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses copyright protection of unpublished works including letters, diaries, manuscripts, photographs, memoranda, sketches, private journals, government records and drafts intended for future publication. Under contemporary British copyright law, unpublished works are protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. In addition, the Berne Convention anticipates that unpublished works shall receive protection. While unpublished works are, in general, assimilated to the treatment of published ones, notable differences in the strength of protection afforded to published and unpublished works remain. It is the case that contemporary British copyright law confers stronger and longer protection on unpublished works. For instance, the unpublished status of a work assumes pivotal significance in the framework for determining: qualification for copyright protection, the extent of copyright protection, exceptions to copyright infringement and the remedies for copyright infringement. The principal aim of the book is to consider whether copyright in unpublished works is justified; a task which is prosecuted from historical, normative and legal perspectives. Although the book's primary focus is the treatment of unpublished works in Britain, it also relies extensively on materials from other Common Law jurisdictions. The book contributes to the understanding of why cumulative protection of unpublished works emerged, and how exceptions to rights in unpublished works evolved. Moreover, the analysis deployed in the book aids the task of applying the law to 'new circumstances'.
Download or read book Intellectual Privilege written by Tom W. Bell and published by Mercatus Center at George Mason University. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A consensus has recently emerged among academics and policymakers that US copyright law has fallen out of balance. Lawmakers have responded by taking up proposals to reform the Copyright Act. But how should they proceed? This book offers a new and insightful view of copyright, marking the path toward a world less encumbered by legal restrictions and yet richer in art, music, and other expressive works. Two opposing viewpoints have driven the debate over copyright policy. One side questions copyright for the same reasons it questions all restraints on freedoms of expression, and dismisses copyright, like other forms of property, as a mere plaything of political forces. The opposing side regards copyrights as property rights that deserve—like rights in houses, cars, and other forms of property—the fullest protection of the law. Each of these viewpoints defends important truths. Both fail, however, to capture the essence of copyright. In Intellectual Privilege, Tom W. Bell reveals copyright as a statutory privilege that threatens our natural and constitutional rights. From this fresh perspective come fresh solutions to copyright’s problems. Published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Download or read book Public But Private written by R. Anthony Reese and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article studies the implications of a recent radical innovation in American copyright law, which has received little attention in copyright scholarship. Traditionally, U.S. copyright law protected an unpublished work as long as it remained unpublished (potentially in perpetuity), and then continued to protect it for a period of years after publication. The article first explains how, starting in 2003, a change to U.S. copyright law took effect that resulted in the copyright expiring on virtually every work of authorship that was created by anyone who died more than 70 years ago and that has never been published. Next, the article categorizes unpublished works and explores the quantity and quality of the various types, especially private works (such as journals, correspondence, never-published literary manuscripts, etc.) and preparatory works (early drafts of works that were later published in revised form). The article then surveys the implications of placing unpublished works in the public domain. Ending indefinite copyright protection is one of the few ways in which copyright protection has been reduced in recent decades and will facilitate much greater use of unpublished material. Because many other countries continue to protect older, unpublished works, the United States is largely pioneering unknown territory by eliminating copyright for such works, and unpublished material that is in the public domain in the United States may remain protected elsewhere. Most significantly, this change fundamentally alters our conception of the public domain, which until now has always been a body of material that both is legally free for the public to use and has been made available to the public. The evolution of the public domain to include a significant amount of unpublished material may affect the legal regulation of the public domain. In that regard, the article considers how those who own copies of unpublished public domain works (such as archives) may use legal mechanisms other than copyright law to continue to control those works. They may, for example, try to control whether a work gets published by allowing access to that work only under a contract that bars any publication. While such contracts might be seen as interfering with federal copyright policy, the article argues that copyright law probably would not preempt the enforcement of such contracts. Once unpublished public domain works are finally published, the publishers might wish to prevent competitors from using those works. They might therefore attempt to persuade Congress to grant them some period of exclusive, copyright-like protection, pointing to recently enacted laws in the European Union that in fact grant a 25-year copyright to the first person to publish a previously unpublished public domain work. The article explains why the Constitution may well give Congress the power to grant such a "publication right" in public domain works, but why such a right would be undesirable.
Download or read book Judicially Crafted Property Rights in Valuable Intangibles written by Apostolos G. Chronopoulos and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apostolos G. Chronopoulos addresses the doctrinal contentions surrounding the doctrine of misappropriation while offering a comprehensive and critical review of the relevant case law that takes into consideration the rich academic commentary on the topic.
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Download or read book Intellectual Property and Open Source written by Van Lindberg and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Clear, correct, and deep, this is a welcome addition to discussions of law and computing for anyone -- even lawyers!"-- Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society If you work in information technology, intellectual property is central to your job -- but dealing with the complexities of the legal system can be mind-boggling. This book is for anyone who wants to understand how the legal system deals with intellectual property rights for code and other content. You'll get a clear look at intellectual property issues from a developer's point of view, including practical advice about situations you're likely to encounter. Written by an intellectual property attorney who is also a programmer, Intellectual Property and Open Source helps you understand patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and licenses, with special focus on the issues surrounding open source development and the GPL. This book answers questions such as: How do open source and intellectual property work together? What are the most important intellectual property-related issues when starting a business or open source project? How should you handle copyright, licensing and other issues when accepting a patch from another developer? How can you pursue your own ideas while working for someone else? What parts of a patent should be reviewed to see if it applies to your work? When is your idea a trade secret? How can you reverse engineer a product without getting into trouble? What should you think about when choosing an open source license for your project? Most legal sources are too scattered, too arcane, and too hard to read. Intellectual Property and Open Source is a friendly, easy-to-follow overview of the law that programmers, system administrators, graphic designers, and many others will find essential.
Download or read book The Public Domain written by Stephen Fishman and published by NOLO. This book was released on 2000 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how to find and use creative works without permission or fees, describing how to recognize whether or not a work is in the public domain.
Download or read book Intellectual Property Law written by Lionel Bently and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 1561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectual Property Law is the definitive textbook on the subject. The authors' all-embracing approach not only clearly sets out the law in relation to copyright, patents, trade marks, passing off, and confidentiality, but also takes account of a wide range of academic opinion enabling readers to explore and make informed judgements about key principles. The particularly clear and lively writing style ensures that even the most complex areas are lucid and comprehensible. Digital formats and resources The sixth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources. The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbook.co.uk/ebooks
Download or read book Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Cultural Heritage written by Stamatoudi, Irini and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important Research Handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of the intersections between intellectual property (IP) and cultural heritage law. It explores and compares how both have evolved and sometimes converged over time, how they increased tremendously in significance, as well as in economic value, despite the fact that the former mainly pertains to the private sphere, whilst the latter is considered a ‘common good’.
Download or read book Globalization and Intellectual Property written by Alexandra George and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectual property laws have become intricately entwined with discussions about globalization. This volume deals with the politics, economics and effects of global intellectual propertization. It provides essays covering key issues including the international relations of global intellectual propertization, the TRIPS Agreement and the tying of intellectual property issues to international trade negotiations, contentions that global intellectual propertization is a form of post-colonial neo-imperialism, globalization's effects on intellectual property law's classic doctrines and rationales and the cultural effects of global intellectual propertization.
Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of Journalism written by Gregory A. Borchard and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 1947 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalism permeates our lives and shapes our thoughts in ways that we have long taken for granted. Whether it is National Public Radio in the morning or the lead story on the Today show, the morning newspaper headlines, up-to-the-minute Internet news, grocery store tabloids, Time magazine in our mailbox, or the nightly news on television, journalism pervades our lives. The Encyclopedia of Journalism covers all significant dimensions of journalism, such as print, broadcast, and Internet journalism; U.S. and international perspectives; and history, technology, legal issues and court cases, ownership, and economics. The encyclopedia will consist of approximately 500 signed entries from scholars, experts, and journalists, under the direction of lead editor Gregory Borchard of University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Download or read book Choice of Law in Copyright and Related Rights written by Mireille M. M. van Eechoud and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody denies that the traditional territorial approach to copyright and other intellectual property rights has come under pressure. Yet it persists. Faced with the need to determine the applicable law in cross-border cases, lawyers everywhere wrestle with the implications of the territorial nature of copyright and related rights. In this book Mireille van Eechoud clears the way to the formulation of conflict rules that reflect the purpose of copyright law- to protect creators and stimulate the production and use of information- without reverting to old-fashioned notions of territoriality. She shows how the applicable law can be determined for four distinct legal avenues of intellectual property law: Which exclusive rights exist in an intellectual creation and for how long; Who is considered to own such right; How can these rights be transferred; and What continues infringement of copyright and related rights. Mireille van Eechoud shows how, when each of these questions is approached in the light of the different allocation principles used in modern choice of law, a new clarity begins to emerge that promises in time to build a set of conflict rules well suited to the unprecedented copyright and related rights issues that we find so difficult to resolve today. Her in-depth analysis draws in the classis multilateral conventions and treaties, underlying policies, technological and economic developments, utilitarian grounds versus justice considerations, and issues of infringement in the digital environment. INFORMATION LAW SERIES 12.
Download or read book The Common Law of Intellectual Property written by Catherine Ng and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-25 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays was written in honour of David Vaver, who recently retired as Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law and Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at the University of Oxford. The essays, written by some of the world's leading academics, practitioners and judges in the field of intellectual property law, take as their starting point the common assumption that the patent, copyright and trade mark laws within members of the 'common law family' (Australia, Canada, Israel, Singapore, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States, and so on) share some sort of common tradition. The contributors examine, in relation to particular topics, the extent to which such a shared view of the field exists in the face of other forces that are producing divergence. The essays discuss, inter alia, issues concerning court practices, the medical treatment exception, non-obviousness and sufficiency in patent law, originality and exceptions in copyright law, unfair competition law, and cross-border goodwill and dilution in trade mark law.
Download or read book Copyright Law written by Bruce P. Keller and published by Practising Law Inst. This book was released on 2001 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copyright Law clearly explains major federal copyright legislation and related court rulings, giving you the legal knowledge you need as an attorney to protect your clients? copyright interests in the real world and in the virtual world of cyberspace.
Download or read book Musical Copyright written by Alfred Martin Shafter and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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