Law: Intellectual Property (6)

• Education
• Law: Intellectual Property
• Philosophy

The Predatory Paradox: Ethics, Politics, and Practices in Contemporary Scholarly Publishing

• Amy Koerber
• Jesse C. Starkey
• Karin Ardon-Dryer
• R. Glenn Cummins
• Lyombe Eko
• Kerk F. Kee

In today’s ‘publish or perish’ academic setting, the institutional prizing of quantity over quality has given rise to and perpetuated the dilemma of predatory publishing. Upon a close examination, however, the definition of ‘predatory’ itself becomes slippery, evading neat boxes or lists which might seek to easily define and guard against it. This volume serves to foreground a nuanced representation of this multifaceted issue. In such a rapidly evolving landscape, this book becomes a field guide to its historical, political, and economic aspects, presenting thoughtful interviews, legal analysis and original research. Case studies from both European-American and non-European-American stakeholders emphasize the worldwide nature of the challenge faced by researchers of all levels.

• Law
• Law: Intellectual Property
• Material Culture
• Visual Arts

Circulation and Control: Artistic Culture and Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century

• Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire
• Will Slauter

The nineteenth century witnessed a series of revolutions in the production and circulation of images. From lithographs and engraved reproductions of paintings to daguerreotypes, stereoscopic views, and mass-produced sculptures, works of visual art became available in a wider range of media than ever before. But the circulation and reproduction of artworks also raised new questions about the legal rights of painters, sculptors, engravers, photographers, architects, collectors, publishers, and subjects of representation (such as sitters in paintings or photographs). Copyright and patent laws tussled with informal cultural norms and business strategies as individuals and groups attempted to exert some degree of control over these visual creations.

• Law
• Law: Intellectual Property

Whose Book Is it Anyway? A View from Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity

• Janis Jefferies
• Sarah Kember

Whose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as artist’s perspectives, writer’s perspectives, feminist, and international perspectives – that are too often marginalized or elided altogether.

• Health
• Law
• Law: Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property and Public Health in the Developing World

• Monirul Azam

Across the world, developing countries are attempting to balance the international standards of intellectual property concerning pharmaceutical patents against the urgent need for accessible and affordable medicines. In this timely and necessary book, Monirul Azam examines the attempts of several developing countries to walk this fine line.

• Digital Humanities
• Law
• Law: Intellectual Property

The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture

• Melanie Dulong de Rosnay
• Juan Carlos De Martin

Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before, but along with this technological democratization comes a paradoxical flipside: the norms regulating culture’s use – copyright and related rights – have become increasingly restrictive. Bringing together academics, librarians, entrepreneurs, activists and policy makers, this book argues that the Public Domain – the informational works owned by all of us – is fundamental to a healthy society. Essential reading for anyone interested in the current debate about copyright and the internet, this book opens up discussion and offers practical solutions to the difficult question of the regulation of culture in the digital age.

• Law
• Law: Intellectual Property
• Material Culture

Privilege and Property: Essays on the History of Copyright

• Ronan Deazley
• Martin Kretschmer
• Lionel Bently

What can and can’t be copied is a matter of law, but also of aesthetics, culture and economics. The act of copying, and the creation and transaction of rights relating to it, evokes fundamental notions of communication and censorship, of authorship and ownership – of privilege and property. Exploring developments in the regulation of printing in Europe and North America from the fifteenth century onwards, as well as the specific evolution of rights associated with the visual and performing arts, this volume conceives a new history of copyright law that has its roots in a wide range of norms and practices.