BNA Books' New Copyright Law Deskbook Covers the Most Current Copyright Cases and Pivotal Decisions
Date:8/20/2009 1:33:00 AM
ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 19 /-/ -- A functional, "to-the-point" alternative to the expansive texts on copyright law, Copyright Law Deskbook expertly addresses the law and practice of copyright, covering the most current cases and pivotal decisions. It provides a thorough treatment of the relevant law, with a particular emphasis on and analyses of recent case law developments, yet manages to stay far more pragmatic than existing treatises on the subject. This important new treatise has just been published by BNA Books, a division of BNA.
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With copyright law having undergone such dramatic changes since the development of the World Wide Web as a commercial, artistic, and intellectual hub, Copyright Law Deskbook is also valuable for its exploration of cases in which existing copyright content is being aggregated, adapted, and distributed in ways unforeseen by Congress when it passed the Copyright Act in 1976. The most up-to-date and significant aspects of the law can be found in this resource, including fair use, work for hire, copyrightability, digital rights and the DMCA, international considerations, damages, formalities, preemption, and litigation issues. It is written to include the relevant statutory language at the beginning of each chapter, followed by a discussion of precedent, organized to highlight the issues of greatest interest to practitioners: What is the applicable standard? Where has it been found satisfied, and where has it not? It includes a look at copyrights when they intersect with taxes, insurance, antitrust and bankruptcy, as well as details about the reasoning behind the decisions, not just string cites.
From the text, practitioners can determine, even before pulling the cases, which ones are likely to be most germane and helpful to the question at hand. It also presents an up-to-date look at the cases behind the explosion of interest in copyright by practitioners (and their clients) who never before had reason to consider it. Mainstream media and consumers now regularly engage topics such as copyrights in cell phone ring tones, YouTube clips, and property rights in video games, images and digital characters. All of this and more are covered in this new title. The result is not so much a treatise, but a professional reference that seeks above all to be useful rather than monumental.
The author, Mr. Robert Clarida, is a partner at Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C. in New York, and a noted author and speaker on copyright. He has for many years co-authored the Copyright Law column for the New York Law Journal, taught an intellectual property seminar at Columbia Law School, and delivered a detailed review of significant case law developments at the annual meeting of the Copyright Society of the USA. Mr. Clarida is a past trustee of the Copyright Society and past Chair of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Copyright & Literary Property. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Copyright Committee of the New York State Bar Association IP Section. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. Before obtaining his law degree from Columbia, he was a Fulbright scholar and earned a Ph.D. in music composition.
Copyright Law Deskbook includes a searchable CD-ROM holding a 15-year archive of annual reviews of significant copyright decisions compiled by lawyers at Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C. In addition to Copyright Law Deskbook, BNA's Book Division publishes Biotechnology and the Federal Circuit; Computer and Intellectual Property Crime: Federal and State Law; Drafting Patent License Agreements; Electronic and Software Patents: Law and Practice; Intellectual Property Law in Cyberspace; Intellectual Property Taxation: Transaction and Litigation Issues; Intellectual Property Technology Transfer; International Patent Litigation: A Country-by-Country Analysis; Internet Law: A Field Guide; Patent Infringement Remedies; Patent Law and Practice; Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook; Patent Prosecution: Practice and Procedure Before the U.S. Patent Office; Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Laws; Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Regulations; Drafting Patents for Litigation and Licensing; Trademark Dilution: Federal, State, and International Law; and other legal titles. For a free BNA Books catalog, call 1-800-960-1220 or send an e-mail request to books@bna.com. The BNA Books Web site, including an online catalog, can be found at bnabooks.com.
Copyright Law Deskbook may be purchased (855 pp Hardcover/ ISBN 978-1-57018-691-2/Order #1691-PRY9/$395.00 plus tax, shipping, and handling) from BNA Books, PO Box 7814, Edison, NJ 08818-7814. Telephone orders: 1-800-960-1220. Fax orders: 1-732-346-1624. A 10 percent discount is available when ordering from the Web site (discounts cannot be combined).
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