"Copyright law was once an esoteric backwater, the special province of professional authors, publishers, and media companies. This is no longer the case. In the age of social media and cloud storage, we have become a copying and sharing culture. Much of our everyday communication, work, and entertainment now directly involves copyright law. Copyright law and policy are ferociously contested. Record labels, movie studios, book publishers, newspapers,...

Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue to piracy online. But here Adrian Johns shows that piracy has a much longer and more vital history than we have realized-one...

"School librarians and educators have specific copyright questions that are often glossed over in larger books on the subject. Now, thanks to best-selling copyright authority Carrie Russell, there's a resource just for them, offering clear guidance for providing materials to students while carefully observing copyright law. Using whimsical illustrations so well known from Complete Copyright, Russell: Offers detailed advice on the distinctive issues...

Preparing to deliver her Last Day speech to celebrate her new adulthood in a world where every word and gesture is copyrighted, patented or trademarked, a 15-year-old girl elects to remain silent rather than pay to speak, a decision that threatens to unravel the fabric of society.

Fredy Adolfo Forero Villa, coordinador del área de Derecho de Autor del Cerlalc, ofrece respuestas a dudas a las que suele enfrentarse el editor universitario en su día a día relativas a los derechos autorales. Forero aborda asuntos como el uso de imágenes, la gestión de obras huérfanas, la política de acceso abierto, la contratación de servicios con agregadores digitales para la distribución de obras y los elementos esenciales de un contrato,...

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 explaining the Creative Commons system, providing a useful guide to takedown notices, or examining the process for licensing orphan works, Copyright Master forms...

En el estado actual de la tecnología y gracias a Internet, determinados modelos de negocio existentes, como el streaming, la descarga directa o el intercambio mediante redes P2P, han contribuido a una mayor difusión y acceso a los contenidos protegidos por parte de los usuarios. Sin embargo, también han sido y son utilizados en ocasiones para hacer un uso ilícito de dichas explotaciones, permitiendo el acceso a contenidos protegidos sin autorización...

This book is intended as both a primer on intellectual property law and as a general reference for authors, artists, musicians, librarians, entrepreneurs and others interested in learning about intellectual property law and the processes for obtaining copyrights, trademarks and patents in the U.S. and through international agreements.The main text provides a brief orientation on the relevant law and on the process and cost of applying for patents...

Copyright enforcement is a very significant area in IPR, which protects the authors, performers and even computer programmers and performers. The law in the topic was largely not settled till the Amendment Act, 2013 came in to existence. The Author has made earnest efforts to study the Amendment Bill ,2012 of Copyright Act along with provisions in European and United States Law and has visited in to the provisions of Enforcement of Copyright. The...