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Islam, Intellectual Property, and Free Culture | Josef Assad
To stress the superficiality of current efforts, many areas concerning intellectual property legislation which are highly relevant today do not appear to have been considered in any way from the Islamic perspective. This includes topics such as the patent
MediaMente: "Copyright is of the right, copyleft of the left"
I should explain that copyleft is legally based on copyright. Thatís the reason why we can enforce it. If somebody violates our copyleft by distributing versions with no source code or trying to attach other restrictions to them, they are violating copyr
Researcher: Optimal copyright term is 14 years
According to Pollock's calculations (and his paper [PDF] is full of calculations), this is exactly the opposite result that one would expect from a rational copyright system. Of course, there's no guarantee that copyright law has anything to do with ratio
LinkedIn: Answers: Are advertisements copyright protected?
Ads are copyrighted. Theoretically with the same obligations. But adcos and announcers bet on viral marketing and rarely attack. Plagiarism does exist, but then again, creative people feel honored when a colleague pays tribute to their creativity.
Cease and Desist Letter
It has come to my attention that you have made an unauthorized use of my copyrighted work entitled [name of work] (the "Work") in the preparation of a work derived therefrom. I have reserved all rights in the Work, first published in [date], [and have reg
Fair Use Network: Home Page
How much can you borrow, quote or copy from someone else's work? What happens if you get a "cease and desist" letter from a copyright owner? These and many other questions make "intellectual property," or "IP," law, a mass of confusion for artists, schola
Court Strikes Down Shrink-Wrap License Agreement
Did Zeidenberg violate the terms of the shrink-wrap license agreement, which expressly stated that copying of the software and the data (the telephone listings) may be done only for individual or personal use and that distribution, sublicense or lease of
Legal Concepts | Creative Commons
Creativity and innovation rely on a rich heritage of prior intellectual endeavor. We stand on the shoulders of giants by revisiting, reusing, and transforming the ideas and works of our peers and predecessors. Digital communications promise a new explosio
Blog Law » 12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know
While the Internet still retains some of the “wild wild west” feel, increasingly Internet activity, and particular blogging, is being shaped and governed by state and federal laws. For US bloggers in particular, blogging has become a veritable land mi
Copyright law of the European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The copyright law of the European Union has arisen in an attempt to harmonise the differing copyright laws of European Union member states. It is comprised of a number of Directives, which the member states are obliged to enact into their national laws, a
SSRN-Copyright History and the Future: What's Culture Got to Do With It? by Paul Geller
his Article seeks to prompt thought about future copyright lawmaking in the light of the past. Its first part draws some hypotheses about copyright functions from copyright history, which it analyzes into three periods. The pre-copyright period extended t
BALANCE OF RIGHTS BETWEEN COPYRIGHT
PRE-EMPTION ISSUES IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT: CAN COPYRIGHT LIMITATIONS BE OVERRIDDEN BY CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS UNDER EUROPEAN LAW?
U.S. Copyright Office - Visual Art Works Registration
Visual Art Works
Follow these steps to register your pictorial, graphic, sculptural, or architectural work:
Step 1
Make sure your work is a visual arts work. Visual arts are pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including 2-dimensional and 3-dimensio
Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab
So, in a nutshell, here’s the total paradox digital producers face – or at least think they face. On the one hand, massively multilateral negotiations raise negotiation and enforcement costs so high that negotiating property rights isn’t feasible. O
Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab
Let’s take a quick detour through the history of rights management to examine this. The first rights management system bundled into digital goods was copy protection. Copy protection seems like a rational response: it attempted to limit the externality
Scrooge and intellectual property rights -- Stiglitz 333 (7582): 1279 -- BMJ
Intellectual property differs from other property—restricting its use is inefficient as it costs nothing for another person to use it. Thomas Jefferson, America's third president, put it more poetically than modern economists (who refer to "zero margina
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