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The digital rights movement: The role of technology in subverting digital cop…
The evolution of activism against the expansion of copyright in the digital domain, with case studies of resistance including eBook and iTunes hacks.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Interfaces on trial 2.0
This title investigates an often overlooked factor in the development of today's interoperable world - the evolution of copyright law. The book examines the debates surrounding the use of copyright law to prevent competition and interoperability in the global software industry in the last 15 years.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295543
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- 1 online resource (x, 233 pages).
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Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture
How the shift toward "technical copy protection" in the battle over digital copyright depends on changing political and commercial alignments that are profoundly shaping the future of cultural expression in a digital age.While the public and the media have been distracted by the story of Napster, warnings about the evils of "piracy," and lawsuits by the recording and film industries, the enforc…
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- 9780262273831
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- 1 online resource (viii, 395 pages)
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Copyright's broken promise :how to restore the law's ability to promote the p…
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- 9780262371483
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- 1 online resource (184 pages) :illustrations
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Shadow libraries :access to educational materials in global higher education
This collection looks at how university students in Russia, Argentina, South Africa, Poland, Brazil, India, and Uruguay get the books and articles they need for their education. The death of Aaron Swartz and the more recent controversy around the SciHub and Libgen repositories have drawn attention to the question of access to knowledge, particularly for students facing financial and other const…
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- 9780262345699
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- 1 online resource (313 pages) :illustrations
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The copyright book :a practical guide
This edition has been thoroughly updated to cover copyright developments in the law since 2000. There is expanded coverage of infringement and fair use, with detailed discussion of recent decisions, including the Grateful Dead, Google, and HathiTrust cases. It considers such topics as open access, the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), file sharing, e-reserves, the status of "orphan w…
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- Sixth edition.
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- 9780262323505
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Navigating Copyright for Libraries: Purpose and Scope
Much of the information that libraries make available is protected by copyright or subject to the terms of license agreements. This reader presents an overview of current issues in copyright law reform. The chapters present salient points, overviews of the law and legal concepts, selected comparisons of approaches around the world, significance of the topic, and opportunities for reform, advoca…
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- 9783110732009
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Making Copyright Work for the Asian Pacific : Juxtaposing Harmonisation with …
This book provides a contemporary overview of developing areas of copyright law in the Asian Pacific region. While noting the tendency towards harmonisation through free trade agreements, the book takes the perspective that there is a significant amount of potential for the nations of the Asian Pacific region to work together, find common ground and shift international bargaining power. Moreove…
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- 9781760462383
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Privilege and Property : Essays on the History of Copyright
What can and can’t be copied is a matter of law, but also of aesthetics, culture, and economics. The act of copying, and the creation and transaction of rights relating to it, evokes fundamental notions of communication and censorship, of authorship and ownership—of privilege and property.
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- 9781906924201
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- 340 PRI
Copyright perspectives : past, present and prospect
This book provides international and domestic perspectives on the law of copyright and is led by a foreword on the future of copyright by Dr Francis Gurry, Director General of WIPO and a chapter on the lessons for copyright policy in classical Roman law, by Justice Arthur Emmett. The body of this collection covers current perspectives in the digital age, from the application of the Berne Conven…
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- 9783319159133
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- xiv, 317 pages
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- 346.0482
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