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Intellectual Property and Digital Content.
Gruner, Richard. Editor.; Allison, J. R.; Burk, D. L.; Chisum, D. S.; Ghosh, S.; Lemley, M. A.; Litman, J.; Samuelson, P.; Smith, B. L.; Stefik, M.; Yu, P. K.; Contributors.
2013
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Title
Intellectual Property and Digital Content.
Author
Gruner, Richard. Editor.
Allison, J. R.; Burk, D. L.; Chisum, D. S.; Ghosh, S.; Lemley, M. A.; Litman, J.; Samuelson, P.; Smith, B. L.; Stefik, M.; Yu, P. K.; Contributors.
Imprint
Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd., 2013.
Item Type
Book
Description
1672 pages.
ISBN
9781781006863 Print
9781784714444 eBook
Summary
Few changes in the world of intellectual property (IP) have been as transformative as the advent and proliferation of digital content works. The high value of these works in modern society has prompted calls for new IP standards to promote the protection – and the sharing – of such valuable assets. Assembling some of the best analyses by legal scholars, these volumes explore the implications both of applying older IP standards to the new digital technologies and of devising new enhanced IP standards for the digital age. In covering the influences of patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and other intellectual property laws, this wide-ranging collection reflects the sweeping impacts of IP standards and controversies on digital content works. Professor Gruner’s extensive introduction illuminates the timeless policy and societal issues involved and suggests ways forward for this vibrant new field.
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The recommended readings are available in the print version, or may be available via the link to your library's holdings.
Formatted Contents Note
Volume I:
Acknowledgements – Introduction
Part I: Rethinking IP Frameworks in a Digital Age
1. The Quest for Enabling Metaphors for Law and Lawyering in the Information Age; 2. The Challenges of Reforming Intellectual Property Protection for Computer Software; 3. Information Wars and the Challenges of Content Protection in Digital Contexts
Part II: Copyrights and Digital Content
4. Shifting the Possible: How Trusted Systems and Digital Property Rights Challenge Us to Rethink Digital Publishing; 5. Sharing and Stealing; 6. Copyright and the Perfect Curve; 7. Infringement of Copyright in Computer Programs; 8. Legal Implications of Open-Source Software; 9. Libraries in a Digital and Aggressively Copyrighted World: Retaining Patron Access through Changing Technologies; 10. Separating the Sony Sheep from the Grokster Goats: Reckoning the Future Business Plans of Copyright-Dependent Technology Entrepreneurs; 11. Google Book Search and the Future of Books in Cyberspace
Part III: Trademarks and Digital Content
12. Trademark Doctrines for Global Electronic Commerce; 13. Trademarks and Consumer Search Costs on the Internet; 14. Trademarks, Cybersquatters and Domain Names; 15. Remedies in Domain Name Lawsuits: How is a Domain Name Like a Cow?; 16. Defining the Limits of Free-Riding in Cyberspace: Trademark Liability for Metatagging; 17. Initial Interest Confusion: Standing at the Crossroads of Trademark Law
Volume II:
Acknowledgements
An introduction to both volumes by the editor appears in Volume I
Part I: Patents and Digital Content
1. Innovation and Intellectual Property Protection in the Software Industry: An Emerging Role for Patents?; 2. The Patentability of Algorithms; 3. Does Lord Darcy Yet Live? The Case against Software and Business-Method Patents; 4. Designing Optimal Software Patents; 5. Everything Old is New Again: Obviousness Limitations on Patenting Computer Updates of Old Designs; 6. The Disputed Quality of Software Patents; 7. Software Patents, Incumbents, and Entry; 8. High Technology Entrepreneurs and the Patent System: Results of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey
Part II: Other Protections for IP in Digital Content
9. Reasonable Measures to Protect Trade Secrets in a Digital Environment; 10. The Trouble with Trespass; 11. Information May Want to Be Free, but Information Products Do Not: Protecting and Facilitating Transactions in Information Products; 12. Anticircumvention and Anti-Anticircumvention; 13. The Puzzle of Criminal Sanctions for Intellectual Property Infringement; 14. Open Borders, Intellectual Property and Federal Criminal Trade Secret Law
Part III: Future Cultural and Business Influences
15. Re-Crafting a Public Domain; 16. Information Wants to Be Free: Intellectual Property and the Mythologies of Control; 17. YouTube, UGC, and Digital Music: Competing Business and Cultural Models in the Internet Age; 18. Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm; 19. The Concept of Property in the Digital Era.
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