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Copyright and Cultural Heritage
Edward Elgar Publishing 2010; US$ 40.00Thanks to digitisation and the Internet, preservation of and access to our cultural heritage - which consists of works protected by copyright and works in the public domain - have never been easier. This essential book examines the twin issues of the preservation of, and access to, cultural heritage and the problems copyright law creates and the solutions... more...
The Law and Theory of Trade Secrecy
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00This timely Handbook marks a major shift in innovation studies, moving the focus of attention from the standard intellectual property regimes of copyright, patent, and trademark, to an exploration of trade secrecy and the laws governing know-how, tacit knowledge, and confidential relationships. The editors introduce the long tradition of trade secrecy... more...
Law Applicable to Copyright
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00This book discusses the problems of applicable law in international copyright infringement cases and examines the solutions proposed to them in the recent projects by the American Law Institute (ALI) and the European Max Planck Group for Conflict of Laws and Intellectual Property (CLIP). In particular, the book analyzes how the territoriality principle... more...
How to Fix Copyright
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 19.99The arrival of the Internet was revolutionary, and one of the most tumultuous developments that flowed from it--the upending of the relatively settled world of copyright law--has forced us to completely rethink how rights to a work are allocated and how delivery formats affect an originator's claims to the work. Most of the disputes swirling around... more...
Die Leihe in der französischen, englischen und deutschen Rechtsordnung
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2009; US$ 37.64Hauptbeschreibung Die Leihe ist in der rechtsvergleichenden Literatur bislang noch nicht eingehend untersucht worden. Ein Blick auf die Ausstellungspraxis der Museen im In- und Ausland, wo Kunstschätze von zum Teil unschätzbarem Wert verliehen werden, belegt jedoch, dass eine größere Beachtung durchaus angemessen ist. Die vorliegenden Arbeit schließt... more...
Freiheit der Wissenschaft
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 98.00Science and scientific development are increasingly subject to differentiations and specializations that are ever harder to communicate to the general public. This is reflected in doubts about the freedom of science and, conversely, in efforts to actualize it as an important resource of society. Freedom of science has thus become the focal point of... more...
A Shifting Empire
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00The 1911 Copyright Act, often termed the 'Imperial Copyright Act', changed the jurisprudential landscape in respect of copyright law, not only in the United Kingdom but also within the then Empire. This book offers a bird's eye perspective of why and how the first global copyright law launched a new order, often termed the 'common law... more...
Re-thinking Intellectual Property
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 39.95Copyright laws, along with other Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), constitute the legal foundation for the "global knowledge-based economy" and copyright law now plays an increasingly important role in the creation of business fortunes, the access to and dissemination of knowledge, and human development in general. This book examines major... more...
The Little Book of Plagiarism
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 12.95A concise, lively, and bracing exploration of an issue bedeviling our cultural landscape?plagiarism in literature, academia, music, art, and film?by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars. Best-selling novelists J. K. Rowling and Dan Brown, popular historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose, Harvard law professor Charles... more...









