Now, in Free Culture, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas.

This is not a "do-it-yourself" manual but rather a ready reference tool for inventors or creators that will generate maximum efficiencies in obtaining, preserving and enforcing their intellectual property rights.

Who Owns Culture? offers the first comprehensive analysis of cultural authorship and appropriation within American law.

This informative text: Provides detailed outlines of patent, trademark, copyright, and unfair competition laws Offers essays on famous and noteworthy inventors and their inventions and features a copy of the first page of patents resulting ...

It clearly sets out the law in relation to copyright, patents, trade marks, passing off and confidentiality, whilst enlivening the text with illustrations and diagrams.

This book, first published in 2005, examines the evolution and impact of American intellectual property rights during the 'long nineteenth century'.

Gillespie reveals that the real story is not the technological controls themselves but the political, economic, and cultural arrangements being put in place to make them work.

The book helps you to understand the basic philosophy and key issues of open source software development and offers expert guidance on how to draft an open source license.

Kohn on Music Licensing, Third Edition covers: - Licensing for computer software and in multimedia and new media products - Licensing music and sound recordings in cyberspace - Music publishing - International sub-publishing - Co-publishing ...

"This is a pioneering and heroic effort to quantify the ways in which our patent system has failed to live up to its raison d' tre: promoting innovation. The book will be controversial.