Media The Law category: 455 books
Electronic Signatures for B2B Contracts
Evidence from Australia
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
The last few centuries have seen paper-based documents and manuscript signatures dominate the way businesses enter into a contractual relationship with each other. With the advent of Internet, replacing paper-based contracts with B2B electronic contracts is a possibility. However, an appropriate technology...
Regulating Hosting ISPs’ Responsibilities for Copyright Infringement
The Freedom to Operate in the US, EU and China
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This book employs a comparative approach to comprehensively discuss hosting ISPs’ (Internet Service Providers') responsibilities for copyright infringement in the US, EU and China. In particular, it details how the current responsibility rules should be interpreted or revised so as to provide hosting...
by Enyinna Nwauche
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
This book evaluates the protection of traditional cultural expressions in Africa using South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana as case study examples in the light of regional and international approaches in this respect. Such protection is considered in the context of a combination of positive protection...
Financial Identity Theft
Context, Challenges and Countermeasures
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The existence of financial identity theft in the United States, and its (gradual) spread to other areas of the world, increases the need to understand how identity theft occurs and how perpetrators of the crime manage to take advantage of developments within contemporary society. This book aims to...
A Short History of Copyright
The Genie of Information
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book tells the story of how, over centuries, people, society and culture created laws affecting supply of information. In the 21 century, uniform global copyright laws are claimed to be indispensable to the success of entertainment, internet and other information industries. Do copyright laws...
by Douglas Walton
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
This monograph poses a series of key problems of evidential reasoning and argumentation. It then offers solutions achieved by applying recently developed computational models of argumentation made available in artificial intelligence. Each problem is posed in such a way that the solution is easily...
All You Need to Know About the Music Business
10th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
“The industry bible” (Los Angeles Times), now updated, essential for anyone in the music business—musicians, songwriters, lawyers, agents, promoters, publishers, executives, and managers—trying to navigate the rapid transformation of the industry.
For more than twenty years, All You...
The Colorblind Screen
Television in Post-Racial America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many the realization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer a defining social, cultural, and political issue. While many Americans espouse a “colorblind” racial ideology and publicly endorse the broad goals of integration...
A Vast Conspiracy
The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
In A Vast Conspiracy, the best-selling author of The Run of His Life casts an insightful, unbiased eye over the most extraordinary public saga of our time -- the Clinton sex scandals. A superlative journalist known for the skillfulness of his investigating and the power of his writing, Jeffrey Toobin...
Greentown
Murder and Mystery in Greenwich, America's Wealthiest Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The “authentic and definitive” story of Martha Moxley’s murder case, including the conviction of her killer, Michael Skakel—includes photos! (Greenwich Time)
On the night before Halloween, 1975, the wealthy community of Greenwich, Connecticut, was rocked by the murder of fifteen-year-old...
by Tad Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
This classic guide for artists is completely revised and updated to provide an in-depth view of the legal issues facing the visual artist today and provides practical legal guidance for any visual artist involved with creative work. Among the many new topics covered in this comprehensive guide are:...
by Dana Beldiman, Constantin Blanke-Roeser
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This publication examines the legal aspects of the spare parts market from an IP perspective: specifically whether design protection for spare parts of a complex product extends to the spare part aftermarket, or whether that market should remain open to competition. The stakeholders’ equally weighty...
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book provides expert advice on the practical implementation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and systematically analyses its various provisions. Examples, tables, a checklist etc. showcase the practical consequences of the new legislation. The handbook examines...
Privacy and the Digital State
Balancing Public Information and Personal Privacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Alan Charles Raul The devastating and reprehensible acts of terrorism committed against the 11, 2001 have greatly affected our lives, our United States on September livelihoods, and perhaps our way of living. The system of government embodied in our Constitution and Bill of Rights was designed to...