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Author Boyle, James, 1959- author.

Title Intellectual property : law & the information society : cases & materials / James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins.

Publication Info. [Durham, North Carolina] : Center for the Study of the Public Domain, 2016-
Minneapolis : Open Textbook Library
©2016-

Item Status

Description 1 online resource.
Current Frequency Updated irregularly.
Description data file
Legal case and case notes
Physical Medium polychrome
Series Open textbook library
Open Textbook Library.
Contents The theories behind intellectual property -- Intellectual property & the constitution -- Intellectual property & the first amendment -- Trademark: introduction -- Subject matter: requirements for trademark protection -- Grounds for refusing registration -- Trademark infringement -- Defense to trademark infringement: fair & nominative use -- False advertising, dilution & 'cyberpiracy' -- Introduction to copyright: theory & history -- Copyrightable subject matter -- Copyright's "reach": infringement -- limitations on exclusive rights: fair use -- Secondary liability for copyright infringement & safe harbors in the digital age -- Anti-circumvention: a new statutory scheme -- Copyright & state misappropriation law: preemption -- Patents: hopes, fears, history & doctrine -- Patentable subject matter -- Requirements for patent protection: utility -- Requirements for patent protection: novelty -- Non-obviousness -- Trade secrecy & preemption -- Creative Commons? Summary and conclusion.
Summary "This book is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks--from logos to novels to drug formulae--and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights. It focuses on the three graphmain forms of US federal intellectual property--trademark, copyright and patent--but many of the ideas discussed here apply far beyond those legal areas and far beyond the law of the United States. The book is intended to be a textbook for the basic Intellectual Property class, but because it is an open coursebook, which can be freely edited and customized, it is also suitable for an undergraduate class, or for a business, library studies, communications or other graduate school class. Each chapter contains cases and secondary readings and a set of problems or role-playing exercises involving the material. The problems range from a video of the Napster oral argument to counseling clients about search engines and trademarks, applying the First Amendment to digital rights management and copyright or commenting on the Supreme Court's rulings on gene patents."--Open Textbook Library.
Note This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Non-commercial-Share Alike 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Local Note Open Educational Resources (OER). Open Textbooks
Open Textbook Library
Subject Intellectual property -- United States -- Cases.
Intellectual property.
United States.
Genre/Form Casebooks (Law)
Trials, litigation, etc.
Casebooks (Law)
Added Author Jenkins, Jennifer (Attorney), author.
Duke University. Center for the Study of the Public Domain, publisher.
Open Textbook Library, distributor.
ISBN 9781535598163
1535598166