Copyright category: 266 books
The Copyright Book
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
An accessible and comprehensive guide to copyright law, updated to include new developments in infringement, fair use, and the impact of digital technology.
Through five editions since 1981, this book has offered the most comprehensive accessible guide available to all aspects of copyright...
The Copyright Pentalogy
How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
In the summer of 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada issued rulings on five copyright cases in a single day. The cases represent a seismic shift in Canadian copyright law, with the Court providing an unequivocal affirmation that copyright exceptions such as fair dealing should be treated as users’...
The Copyright Guide
How You Can Protect and Profit from Copyright (Fourth Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
"A definitive resource." —Midwest Book Review
A Clear, Friendly Reference for Using, Protecting, and Profiting from Copyright
Copyright may seem like a mystery, but it is actually quite easy to understand—as Lee Wilson demonstrates in The Copyright Guide, Fourth Edition. This resource explains...
Copyright Industries and the Impact of Creative Destruction
Copyright Expansion and the Publishing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
This book examines the relationship between the legal extension of copyright duration as an enduring means of copyright protection and the growth of the UK book publishing industry as a typical creative industry reliant on copyright. The book draws on Schumpeter’s theory of creative destruction...
Copyright User Rights
Contracts and the Erosion of Property
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
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. Combining a detailed theoretical framework with practical applications, the book provides a comprehensive perspective on copyright...
From Maimonides to Microsoft
The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Jewish copyright law is a rich body of jurisprudence that developed in parallel with modern copyright laws and the book privileges that preceded them. Jewish copyright law owes its origins to a reprinting ban that the Rome rabbinic court issued for three books of Hebrew grammar in 1518. It continues...
The Object of Copyright
A Conceptual History of Originals and Copies in Literature, Art and Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Recent years have seen a number of pressing developments in copyright law: there has been an enormous increase in the range and type of work accorded protection; the concept of the ‘original work’ has entered into national copyright acts; and intangible entities are now entitled to protection...
by Lesley Ellen Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
An updated guide to Canadian copyright law for an age of reckless infringement
This fourth edition of Canadian Copyright Law brings you the latest updates according to new Canadian legislation and international agreements. Copyright infringement has always been an invisible crime. Now with...
Copyright and International Negotiations
An Engine of Free Expression in China?
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Copyright and International Negotiations provides a historical study of the development of Chinese copyright law in terms of China's contemporary political economy and the impact that international copyright law has had. The analysis shows how China's copyright system is intertwined with censorship...
Digital Copyright
Law and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
The first edition of this book in 2002 was the first UK text to examine digital copyright together with related areas such as performers' rights, moral rights, database rights and competition law as a subject in its own right. Now in its fifth edition, the book has been substantially updated and revised...
by Anthony Hester
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2012
The One Hour Copyright is a step-by-step picture illustrated instructions. Get Your Copyright Done! My goal was to streamline the process by helping others to achieve their copyright goals. This may include obtaining a copyright for your Literary Work, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Sound Recordings,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions brings together leading copyright scholars and the field's foremost authorities to consider the critical role of copyright law in shaping the complex social, economic, and political interaction critical for cultural productivity and human flourishing....
by William Patry
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
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...
Copyright Law
Volume II: Application to Creative Industries in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume reproduces writings, social teachings, testimonies and reports of figures as diverse as Karl Marx, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, and bodies such as the US Congress. Extracted material charts the development of an international system of copyright regulation, and the growth,...