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: Life of a Law StudentFundamentals of Copyright #11: Non-Copyright Concerns
Copyright is not the only law you have to be aware of when considering whether or not to use a work. Patents, trademarks, trade secrets, contracts, and other issues may provide an additional “layer of protection” beyond just copyright.
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Full post as published by Life of a Law Student on December 28, 2007 (boomark / email).
Fundamentals of Copyright and the Problem with Lost Owners: unintended consequences (Part Two)
As discussed in The Fundamentals of Copyright and the Problem with Lost Owners (Part One) the exclusive rights of copyright attach automatically to a work, whether a photograph or a poem, once it has been transposed into tangible form...
Digital Copyright Slider
Thanks to The Wired Campus, I stumbled across this nifty digital copyright tool developed by the American Library Association’s Copyright Advisory Network (in the Office for Information Technology Policy)...
Cultural v. Commercial Uses
Cory Doctorow: "Copyright law should distinguish between commercial and cultural uses" (2008) Professor L...
The Idea-Expression Dichotomy in Copyright Law
It is not possible to copyright an idea. The owner of a small business in Georgia recently received an undoubtedly unwanted lesson in this sometimes-overlooked aspect of copyright law when she saw her suit for copyright infringement dismissed following the...
Protecting the Copyright In Culture
Michal Shur-Ofry, Faculty of Laws, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has published "The (Copyright) Law of Genre: A Network Perspective on Copyright Protection of Cultural Genres," in volume 60 of the Florida Entertainment Law Review (2008)...
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The Patry Copyright Blog: What the Election May Mean for Copyright: "On the House side, there is no uncertainty as to the majority, but we may not know for awhile who becomes chair of the IP subcommittee...
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