Copyright (Examples & Explanations)

Copyright (Examples & Explanations)

<p>Using proven Examples & Explanations pedagogy, this comprehensive study guide provides students with a short account of the law, followed by a variety of concrete examples and explanations that reinforce and give substance to key rules and concepts in copyright law.</p> <p><br /><strong>New to the Fifth Edition:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Supreme Court decisions: Varsity Brands on functionality and cheerleader uniforms, Kirtsaeng on awarding attorney’s fees even if litigant was reasonable</li> <li>Works from 1923 passing into public domain, as copyright term finally has meaning in 2019</li> <li>“Happy Birthday to You” and “We Shall Overcome” freed from copyright claims</li> <li>Cases on free software and Creative Commons licenses</li> <li>Developments in secondary liability and Web site immunity, such as YouTube and Comcast</li> <li>Fair use cases in art, music, books, software, legal briefs, big data, Google Books, online postings, and movies</li> <li>Oracle v. Google changing software copyright law</li> <li>Authorship issues involving actors, macaques, and artificial intelligence</li> </ul> <p><strong>Professors and students will benefit from:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Up-to-date coverage of recent developments</li> <li>Practical and broad coverage of music, books, art, software, movies, data and other areas</li> <li>Realistic examples and explanations making the rules of copyright concrete and clear</li> <li>A building block approach to provide an overall understanding of copyright</li> </ul>