Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Intellectual Property - General

A Valuable Resource for All Who Must Clear Rights

If you develop, purchase, or distribute original content, you need to clear rights. Rights clearance is essential for authors, publishers, visual artists, musicians, tv producers, filmmakers, website owners, software developers as well as all companies and organizations that advertise and use social media.

Clearing rights means keeping your production free of any material that is likely to spark legal action. Rights an unwary producer might violate include copyright, trademark, publicity,...

Information Law Series Volume 37

The Internet and the Emerging Importance of New Forms of Intellectual Property scrutinizes the existence of commonalities in the realm of intellectual property (IP) rights. The term 'intellectual property' has come to include numerous intangible rights beyond the traditional 'Big Three' (patent, trademark and copyright) - rights that force us to reconsider and maybe also change the object and purpose of IP. Not only do these rights generally have less solid normative footing and few, if any, well-understood inherent...

As one of the few publications on intellectual property law and policy in the region in English the book provides a valuable resource for academics, students and scholars with an interest in intellectual property law as well as legal practitioners, and those doing business in the Middle East.

Covering the intellectual property protection regimes of the Gulf Cooperation Council member states, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the book also includes discussion of Yemen and Jordan as possible future members of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Geographical Indications for Food Products presents a detailed update of the international, regional, and national law of geographical indications (GIs) for food products. Since the first edition of this indispensable volume nearly a decade ago, great changes have taken place in both national and international legal and regulatory frameworks for GIs system for food products. Rather than use of limitation (designed to prevent the use of 'culture' for protectionist purposes), there is a preponderance to now favour recognition of GIs, with enforcement directed at protection....

Up-to-date and comprehensive, this book examines the wider implications of the concept of IP and...

Guide to EU Pharmaceutical Regulatory Law, which is updated annually to reflect the speed at which the rules and regulations change, provides a comprehensive and practical guide to, and analysis of, the current European Union (EU) Pharmaceutical Regulatory Regime. In the EU and its Member States, as elsewhere, the marketing of pharmaceuticals has become subject to an increasingly complex web of legislation and regulation, resulting from the intense scrutiny necessary to ensure that such essential products are not only efficacious but also safe. This useful volume lays out...

Babbitts and Bohemians is a fresh and informed account of the 1920s, a decade that seems almost mythical to some. Elizabeth Stevenson finds that the true twenties was a society of contrast. On the one hand, it was an era of sameness and political conformity, but on the other hand, it was also a time of cultural revolt. In places labeled Main Street and Middletown the citizenry followed a conventional pattern. At the same time, while most of America enjoyed the good life of this period, bohemians in Greenwich Village and expatriates in Paris were fervently...