Patent category: 266 books
by Joseph S. Heino
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Are you a medical professional who is curious about intellectual property? If so, this book is for you. By using terminology that is familiar to you and examples that are relevant to the medical profession, this guide will give you a concise overview of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret...
by Sam Ricketson
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Written by a recognised leader in the field, this work provides the only specialised commentary on the Paris Convention and its associated agreements. Professor Ricketson discusses the origins of the agreement, giving an overview of early debates about patent protection, before outlining the negotiations...
by Helen Sedwick
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Self-Publisher’s Legal Handbook is the first step-by-step guide to the legal issues of self-publishing. Attorney and self-published author Helen Sedwick uses 30 years of legal experience to show writers how to stay out of court and at their desks. Topics include:
• Business set-up. From DBAs to...
Digital Barbarism
A Writer's Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
“A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.”
—National Review online
In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian...
The Pocket Legal Companion to Copyright
A User-Friendly Handbook for Protecting and Profiting from Copyrights
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In our age of unlimited, around-the-clock communication, copyright literacy has become a must for almost all of us, and everyone—informed or not—seems to have strong opinions about the rights of copyright owners and the rights of copyright users. This clearly written and objective book will reward...
by Mark Warda
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
After putting your time and effort into creating an original work, you should be sure that work is protected from those who may want to steal it. Without a copyright, you could lose the right that the law provides for your work.
How to Register Your Own Copyright gives you detailed information...
The Trademark Law Dictionary
United States Domestic Trademark Law Terms & International Trademark Law Terms
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
The Trademark Law Dictionary will be helpful for anyone who researches trademark law. With it, one can easily locate terms and quickly understand conceptsall in one volume. I am impressed with the enormous scope of this reference. The inclusion of international treaty terms is in itself a substantial...
Copyright’s Highway
From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
From eighteenth-century copyright law, to current-day copyright issues on the internet, to tomorrow's "celestial jukebox"—a digital repository of books, movies, and music available on demand—Paul Goldstein presents a thorough examination of the challenges facing copyright owners and...
Internet Book Piracy
The Fight to Protect Authors, Publishers, and Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The international battle against Internet pirates has been heating up. Increasingly law enforcement is paying attention to book piracy as ebook publishing gains an ever-larger market share. With this threat to their health and even survival, publishers and authors must act much like the music, film,...
The Internet, Warts and All
Free Speech, Privacy and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
The Internet, Warts and All asks questions. Why are government digital policies so often out of touch and counter-productive? Why is surveillance law problematic and ineffective - and often defeated in court? Do companies like Google and Facebook really care about freedom of speech? Why are neither...
by Aislinn O'Connell
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
The perfect distillation of everything you need to know about copyright law.
Covering everything from copyright’s early history to the protection of cutting-edge software, Copyright Master is a concise, practical guide through the labyrinth of licensing and intellectual property.
Whether...
by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
We all create intellectual property. We all use intellectual property. Intellectual property is the most pervasive yet least understood way we regulate expression. Despite its importance to so many aspects of the global economy and daily life, intellectual property policy remains a confusing and arcane...
The Idealist
Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
This smart, “riveting” (Los Angeles Times) history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society—and the life and shocking suicide of Aaron Swartz, a founding developer of Reddit and Creative Commons—written by Slate correspondent Justin Peters “captures Swartz...
Common as Air
Revolution, Art, and Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past that continues to enrich our present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is "intellectual property," Lewis Hyde turns to America's founding...