"Google Rules traces the rise of Google through its legal, commercial and political negotiations over copyright. The first part of the book shows how the public interest suffers in a digital copyright policy debate dominated by powerful industry stakeholders. The second part exp…
"Copyright and International Negotiations provides a historical study of the development of Chinese copyright law in terms of China's contemporary political economy and the impact that international copyright law has had. The analysis shows how China's copyright system is intert…
With digital technologies blurring media boundaries, this book provides a detailed analysis of how the Internet is producing a convergence of the press, audio-visual and online media. Based on extensive empirical analysis, the authors analyse over 25 years of changes to media fo…
"In Ghana, adinkra and kente textiles derive their significance from their association with both Asante and Ghanaian cultural nationalism. They each convey, through color, style, and adornment, the bearer's identity, social status, and even emotional state. Yet both textiles hav…
"IP, software plagiarism, patents, and copyrights are complicated subjects. This book explains the key elements better than anything else I have seen. I highly recommend it to anyone who develops software or needs to protect proprietary software algorithms, and to all attorneys …
Australian intellectual property law
by Davison, Mark J., Wiseman, Leanne, Monotti, Ann L.
"A thorough guide for understanding how to acquire rights to books, films, music and other content. The fourth edition will be completely updated and will contain a wide collection of practical, reallife FAQs build upon Dear Rich blog questions"Provided by publisher
'Democracy of Sound' tells the story of the pirates, radicals, jazzbos, deadheads, and DJs who challenged the record industry for control of recorded sound throughout the 20th century. A political and cultural history, it shows how the primacy of 'intellectual property' graduall…
"It was a time when music fans copied and traded recordings without permission. An outraged music industry pushed Congress to pass anti-piracy legislation. Yes, that time is now; it was also the era of Napster in the 1990s, of cassette tapes in the 1970s, of reel-to-reel tapes i…