Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society-Cases and Materials

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, James, author.

Jenkins, Jennifer (Attorney), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Textbooks--United States.

Law.

Civil law--Textbooks.

Civil law.

Property Law--Textbooks.

Property Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Durham, North Carolina James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Chapter One: The Theories Behind Intellectual Property

Chapter Two: Intellectual Property & the Constitution

Chapter Three: Intellectual Property & the First Amendment

Chapter Four: Trademark: Introduction

Chapter Five: Subject Matter: Requirements for Trademark Protection

Chapter Six: Grounds for Refusing Registration

Chapter Seven: Trademark Infringement

Chapter Eight: Defense to Trademark Infringement: Fair & Nominative Use

Chapter Nine: False Advertising, Dilution & 'Cyberpiracy'

Chapter Ten: Introduction to Copyright: Theory & History

Chapter Eleven: Copyrightable Subject Matter

Chapter Twelve: Copyright's "Reach": Infringement

Chapter Thirteen: Limitations on Exclusive Rights: Fair Use

Chapter Fourteen: Secondary Liability for Copyright Infringement & Safe Harbors in the Digital Age

Chapter Fifteen: Anti-Circumvention: A New Statutory Scheme

Chapter Sixteen: Copyright & State Misappropriation Law: Preemption

Chapter Seventeen: Patents: Hopes, Fears, History & Doctrine

Chapter Eighteen: Patentable Subject Matter

Chapter Nineteen: Requirements for Patent Protection: Utility

Chapter Twenty: Requirements for Patent Protection: Novelty

Chapter Twenty-One: Non-Obviousness

Chapter Twenty-Two: Trade Secrecy & Preemption

Chapter Twenty-Three: A Creative Commons? Summary and Conclusion

Notes:

Description based on print resource