Copyright Illuminated: Refocusing the Diffuse US Statute

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Kluwer Law International B.V., Jan 1, 2008 - Law - 571 pages


For several decades now David Nimmer has maintained a steady flow of insightful, witty, and deeply-informed commentary on copyright in the law journals. His well-earned reputation as a major authority and theorist on copyright law is unassailable.

In this new volumeand a companion to his very well received Copyright: Sacred Text, Technology, and the DMCA, published by Kluwer in 2003and Nimmer once again tackles some of the thorniest issues that arise in the practice of copyright law, including the following and much more:

and the work for hire doctri?

and repeat infringers;

and fair use determination; and

and substantial similarity of computer programs.

Although the volume collects articles originally published between 1988 and 2006 (mostly in the past few years), Nimmer has scrupulously updated the texts and woven them together into a unified whole. What the book offers as a result is a microscopic scrutiny of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 and all its amendments, with an immeasurable abundance of interpretation grounded in the authorand s unmatched familiarity with the law and its application. This is a work that no lawyer handling copyright casesand or indeed no student or scholar of any branch of intellectual property lawand will want to be without.

 

Contents

CHAPTER
3
CONTEMP PROBS 263 2003
8
Evaluating Legislation
35
ARTS ENT L J 11 2006
45
The Road DownAn Akanthology
98
Listening to Mel
121
Strategies for Moving Forward
151
AfterWord
157
Puzzling through the Statutory Contours of Repeat Infringers
271
Proper Canons of Interpretation of Repeat Infringer Doctrine
286
Harvest
315
CHAPTER SEVEN
319
AfterWord
353
The Poesie Album
381
CHAPTER NINE
387
Part Five
397

Domestic Implications
174
Effects Abroad
189
Conclusion
192
CHAPTER THREE
195
A Smattering of Cases
201
CHAPTER FOUR
213
Evaluation
221
Effect on Public Interest
232
Fin
238
CHAPTER FIVE
241
Statutory Definitions
242
Lessening Confusion in Copyrights WorkforHire Doctrine
257
Conclusion
263
Evaluating Worth 36
399
Preemption of Community Property Laws Affecting Copyrights
411
A Proposed Resolution
421
J COPYRIGHT SOCY 365 2006
427
Moral Rights
436
Plagiarism
478
Moral
498
An Analytic Tool to Determine Substantial Similarity
512
Conclusion
532
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
535
The Challenges of Technology
545
CODA
555
Index
567

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About the author (2008)

Steve Voake is the author of all the Daisy Dawson books, as well as two novels for older readers. He lives in Somerset, England.

Jessica Meserve is the illustrator of all the Daisy Dawson books as well as other books for children. She lives near Boston, Massachusetts.

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