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CasebookPlus Hardbound - New, hardbound print book includes
lifetime digital access to an eBook, with the ability to highlight
and take notes, and 12-month access to a digital Learning Library
that includes self-assessment quizzes tied to this book, leading
study aids, an outline starter, and Gilbert Law Dictionary.
This book provides an overview of trademark, patent, and copyright
doctrine and offers a foray into more advanced topics, such as
digital rights management, international law, and state doctrinal
developments in both civil and criminal law. Particularly important
is a final chapter that develops the "new horizons" of intellectual
property, covering topics such as open source software,
intellectual property and business development, protections for
traditional knowledge, and competition policy. This casebook is
targeted to a wide range of law students, including both those who
are technologically inclined and those who are interested in all
forms of creativity and expression. The new edition expands on the
strengths of the first edition. Chapters on copyright and trademark
are reorganized to make them more readable and include more on
digital rights management. The new edition covers recent IP issues
in biotechnology, termination rights under copyright, search
engines, the Google book project and the YouTube vs. Viacom case.
The role of economic incentives in copyright and patent law is more
extensively discussed, along with new treatments of post-grant
patent proceedings, new media for public performance of copyrighted
works, and digital copyrights. This edition is also supplemented by
an extensive set of self-assessment questions (and answers)
prepared by the authors, which are designed to provide feedback to
students on their understanding of overall intellectual property
concepts and of the specific contents of every chapter.
Since the end of the Cold War, federal funding for research at
American universities has sharply decreased, leaving administrators
searching for a new benefactor. At the same time, changes in
federal policy permitting universities to patent, license, and
profit from their discoveries combined with the emergence of new
fields that thinned the lines between "basic" and "applied"
research to make universities an attractive partner to private
industry. This reorientation from public to private funding has
created new challenges for the academy. In thirteen insightful and
wide-ranging essays, Defining Values for Research and Technology
examines the modern research university in the throes of
transition. Contributors discuss the tensions of research versus
education, public funding versus corporatization, and the academic
freedom of open discussion versus the secrecy needed to ensure
financial gain. Will universities and their professors pursue
industrial imperatives at the expense of traditional academic
values, or will they harness the energy of industry to advance a
mission of research for the public good? Defining Values for
Research and Technology, while acknowledging potential dangers,
argues that university-industry partnerships have the potential to
both benefit industrial expansion and enrich academic life. In
doing so, it raises important points about the connections between
"pure" science and industrialized technology more generally, and
the role that policy plays in science. Both those interested in the
evolution of the academy and scholars of the history and sociology
of science will find something worthwhile within its pages.
Since the end of the Cold War, federal funding for research at
American universities has sharply decreased, leaving administrators
searching for a new benefactor. At the same time, changes in
federal policy permitting universities to patent, license, and
profit from their discoveries combined with the emergence of new
fields that thinned the lines between 'basic' and 'applied'
research to make universities an attractive partner to private
industry. This reorientation from public to private funding has
created new challenges for the academy. In thirteen insightful and
wide-ranging essays, Defining Values for Research and Technology
examines the modern research university in the throes of
transition. Contributors discuss the tensions of research versus
education, public funding versus corporatization, and the academic
freedom of open discussion versus the secrecy needed to ensure
financial gain. Will universities and their professors pursue
industrial imperatives at the expense of traditional academic
values, or will they harness the energy of industry to advance a
mission of research for the public good? Defining Values for
Research and Technology, while acknowledging potential dangers,
argues that university-industry partnerships have the potential to
both benefit industrial expansion and enrich academic life. In
doing so, it raises important points about the connections between
'pure' science and industrialized technology more generally, and
the role that policy plays in science. Both those interested in the
evolution of the academy and scholars of the history and sociology
of science will find something worthwhile within its pages.
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