Copyright Law


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Copyright Law


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This casebook emphasizes the essential cases and materials at the heart of copyright law. The result is a streamlined and well-organized casebook of manageable length that keeps the central themes of copyright front and center. It also provides access to a companion Web site containing an extensive library of additional modules, topics, edited cases, notes, problems, and audio-visual materials. Together these materials, along with a companion teacher's manual, allow teachers to easily customize the copyright law course to suit their specific goals. The authors have written extensively about copyright, the arts, and the impact of new technology.




Copyright


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With stimulating questions, comprehensive notes, and teachable cases as its hallmarks, Gorman and Ginsburg's Copyright serves as the authoritative law school casebook for the study of copyright law. The book's many well-chosen recent decisions cover issues such as the Napster case, the MP3.com fair use case, secondary liability, circumvention of technological protections, interpretation of pre-digital licenses, Internet transmission of music, distance education, and international issues. Traditional issues include protection for government-authored and incorporated works, joint ownership and community property, and the duration of copyright and the constitutionality of its extensions. Other topics include the World Trade Organization ruling on the Fairness in Music Licensing Act and developing theories about preemption of state law.




Intellectual Property Law: Text, Cases, and Materials


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This book provides a full and clear exposition of the fundamentals of intellectual property law in the UK. It combines excerpts from cases and a broad range of secondary works with insightful commentary from the authors which will situate the law within a wider international context.




Copyright


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This is the 2017 Statutory Appendix to Gorman, Ginsburg, and Reese's Copyright: Cases and Materials, 9th.




International Intellectual Property


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Chow and Lee's International Intellectual Property: Problems, Cases, and Materials addresses the latest developments in U.S., EU, and WTO law. It contains numerous new cases, replacing older ones. The text remains concise and retains the features of the first edition that made it popular: clear expositions of the law and many short, practical, and straightforward problems that liven class discussions and draw home the lessons to the students.




Intellectual Property Law


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¿ Immerse students in the world of intellectual property law and provide essential perspectives to practice in this area.¿ The Fifth Edition of Loren & Miller¿s Intellectual Property Law continues to provide engaging and challenging coverage of all the major types of intellectual property law: trade secret, patent, copyright, and trademark law. Covering cases and developments through Spring 2017, the book includes all the latest Supreme Court cases that are vital to a survey course, including Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands (as a principal case) and contextualized discussion of Matal v. Tam and Impression Products v. Lexmark International. Each chapter has been fully revised, with changes¿some small, some more extensive¿that optimize clear presentation of tightly edited cases and concise notes and questions.¿ The book kicks off with an introduction that explores the basic policies animating i.p. law and concludes with two overarching chapters¿one on i.p. limits (preemption and first sale), and one on remedies (to redress past harm and prevent future harm). This book will both guide student analysis and challenge students to make vital connections within and across doctrines and policies.




Entertainment Law


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Hardbound - New, hardbound print book.




Cases and Materials on Trade Secret Law


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This, the first casebook in the United States devoted exclusively to trade secret law, is challenging yet user-friendly to students. In order to facilitate understanding of the material, the book is designed to be used by law and business students with no prior background in intellectual property law. Throughout, the authors have made conscious and thoughtful decisions about the way in which the information is presented and organized. The general organization follows a logical analytical approach to understanding trade secret law, with the chapters progressing from proving the essential elements of a trade secret claim to defensive tactics and remedies, managing trade secrets, and criminal actions. It also addresses employment, management, and international issues.




Legislation and Regulation


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The updated casebook, Manning and Stephenson's Legislation and Regulation, 2d, is designed for a first-year class on Legislation & Regulation, and provides a proven, ready-to-use set of materials for those interested in introducing such a class to their 1L curriculum. The book focuses on the tools and methods of interpreting legal texts, using Supreme Court and other appellate decisions as the primary texts, yet the note material gently introduces students to applicable insights from political science, history, economics, and philosophy. The book aims to familiarize students with tools and techniques that lawyers and judges use when crafting legal arguments in statutory or regulatory contexts, and to give students a sense of the larger questions of institutional design implicated by these interpretive questions.