Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Intellectual Property - General

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 that has been largely forgotten and is little understood.

"Piracy" explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print...

While the actual impact of digital piracy is nearly impossible to precisely calculate, the threat of financial damage from illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing to the world's highest-grossing entertainment firms (and even entire industries ) has garnered attention from government, industry, and academic leaders and criminal justice professionals. Oftentimes, those providing access to computers and file sharing capabilities-parents, schools, libraries-don't know about or understand these activities and, therefore, put themselves and their families at risk for criminal and civil...

To whom does a painted tablet a "tabula picta" belong? To the owner of the physical piece of wood on which an image is painted? Or to the person who made the painting on that piece of wood? By extension, one might ask, who is the owner of a text? Is it the person who has written the words, or the individual who possesses the piece of parchment or slab of stone on which those words are inscribed?

In "Tabula Picta" Marta Madero turns to the extensive glosses and commentaries that medieval jurists dedicated to the above questions when articulating a notion of intellectual and artistic...

The focus of this work is the legal expression of the copyright owner's personal right to maintain the integrity of his work in Germany and the USA. The law must provide the necessary protection against adaptation especially in this age of ever simpler and faster adaption technology, which serves to customize work to meet user needs. It is vital to have legal protection not only because of the copyright owner's interest in the integrity of his work but also based on the user's interest in the authenticity of the work. Integrity protection is most influenced by political and economic...

Spamand#8212;unsolicited, unwanted commercial communication, especially in bulk formand#8212;is increasingly included in the areas of concern and regulation of governments worldwide. Unfortunately, this recognized and exponentially growing menace has not yet met its regulatory match. Piecemeal controls, lack of international cooperation, and the absence of an overall policy on combating patently intrusive and unwanted messages in all channels of communication hamper the struggle. The present volume contains eleven national reports, together with a general report, on this major...

This book explores the economic analysis of intellectual property law, with a special emphasis on the Law and Economics of informational goods in light of the past decade's technological revolution. In recent years there has been massive growth in the Law and Economics literature focusing on intellectual property, on both normative and positive levels of analysis. The economic approach to intellectual property is often described as a monolithic, coherent approach that may differ only as it is applied to a particular case. Yet the growing literature of Law and Economics in intellectual...