Intellectual property protection of fact-based works : copyright and its alternatives / edited by Robert F. Brauneis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brauneis, Robert.

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Copyright--Databases--United States.

Copyright.

Intellectual property--Philosophy.

Intellectual property.

Intellectual property--Political aspects.

Intellectual property--United States--History.

Intellectual property--United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Approaches the protection of factual matter from a range of perspectives: policy, historical, comparative, empirical and philosophical. This work is suitable for students, scholars and lawyers working in the area of intellectual property law.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Cases and legislation; Chapter 1: Feist, facts and functions: historical perspective; Chapter 2: The debate over copyright in news and its effect on originality doctrine; Chapter 3: Of silos and constellations: comparing notions of originality in copyright law; Chapter 4: Two fallacies about copyrighting factual compilations; Chapter 5: Speaking of the world: fact, opinion and the originality standard of copyright; Chapter 6: Created facts and their awkward place in copyright law

Chapter 7: Copyright and convergence: a pragmatic perspectiveChapter 8: The challenge of protecting trade secret information in a digital world; Chapter 9: The third party problem: assessing the protection of information through tort law; Chapter 10: The componentization of information; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-44210-4

9786612442100

1-84980-189-4

OCLC:

503078112