Intellectual Property

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Intellectual Property in Canada’s Federal Courts

An Empirical Review of Proceedings

From: The Federal Court of Appeal and the Federal Court

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This chapter examines how Intellectual Property has been dealt with in the in Canada’s Federal Courts over the last twenty-five years, or, where possible, fifty years. 45 $4.50 Add
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Intellectual Property, Employment, and Talent Relations

A Media Studies Perspective

From: Intellectual Property for the 21st Century

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This chapter considers twentieth century contests over the terms of creative employment in the United States film and music industries. The sites of creative employment are pre-eminently sites of … 21 $2.10 Add
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The Trouble with the TPP’s Copyright Rules

From: The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada

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Michael Geist, one of Canada’s most knowledgeable and incisive critics of the TPP, examines the implications of its copyright provisions. As anticipated early on in the negotiations, the … 15 $1.50 Add
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A Gramscian Analysis of the Public Performance Right

From: Intellectual Property for the 21st Century

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This chapter briefly traces the historical establishment and expansion of the public performance right in musical works within those countries united by the Anglo-American legal tradition, with a … 19 $1.90 Add
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Branding Culture

Fictional Characters and Undead Celebrities in an Era of “Transpropertied” Media

From: Intellectual Property for the 21st Century

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This chapter explores changes in intellectual property law as part of a changing media ecology that began during the 1970s in which IP law is a medium of control in the digital age. It will be … 22 $2.20 Add
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Regina v Stewart

Is Information Property?

From: Property on Trial

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Examination of the history and consequences of a 1988 Supreme Court of Canada case regarding the relationship between confidential information and property. 39 $3.90 Add
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Punishment, Private Style

Statutory Damages in Canadian Copyright Law

From: Intellectual Property for the 21st Century

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Copyright infringement is a widespread contemporary behaviour of commercial enterprises and private individuals. To restrain such infringements, legislators and courts have used punitive and … ; 18 $1.80 Add
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Information Society Discourse, Innovation, and Intellectual Property

From: Intellectual Property for the 21st Century

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This paper examines the discursive relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs), innovation, and theories of the information society. Using Norman Fairclough’s method, Critical … 21 $2.10 Add
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National and International Security Interests

From: Personal Property Security Law, 2/e

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Discussion of federal statutes that regulate security interests in personal property, as well as observations on increased international activity in the field of secured transactions law. ; ; 41 $4.10 Add
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Pirate or Prophet?

Monsanto Canada Inc v Schmeiser

From: Property on Trial

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Examination of a 2004 Supreme Court of Canada patent infringement case arising from the use of genetically modified seeds without paying the licensing fee. 30 $3.00 Add
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Seeking the Margins

Fair Use and Copyright, Harold Innis, and Israel

From: Intellectual Property for the 21st Century

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This paper seeks to combine elements from the fields of law and communication to address contemporary challenges concerning the use of exceptions within the system of copyright. The debate … 17 $1.70 Add
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Intellectual Property

The Promise and Risk of Human Rights

From: Intellectual Property for the 21st Century

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The intersection of intellectual property and human rights is a relatively new site in the search for balance in intellectual property law and policy. Although this intersection opens up … 22 $2.20 Add
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Merges on Just IP

Are IP Rights Basic?

From: Intellectual Property for the 21st Century

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This chapter criticizes Robert Merges’s attempts to show that current IP law is just on Rawls’ politically liberal theory of justice as fairness. Merges argues that IP law is just … 19 $1.90 Add
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Appropriation Appropriated

Ethical, Artistic, and Legal Debates in Canada

From: Intellectual Property for the 21st Century

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Although Appropriation Art is often used to illustrate how freedom of speech can be constrained by expansionist copyright, such a framing oversimplifies the complex and often contested ways … ; 19 $1.90 Add
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The Story of My Life

Fiction, Ethics, and the Self at Law

From: Intellectual Property for the 21st Century

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In Cooper v Stockett, a plaintiff unsuccessfully claimed that a central character in the 2009 novel The Help was based on her and that the depiction caused her emotional harm. By analyzing the … 18 $1.80 Add
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Structures of Sharing

Depropriation and Intellectual Property Law

From: Intellectual Property for the 21st Century

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Intellectual property law is concerned with control over the production and distribution of copies (“materially fixed expressions”) of ideas. Copies are in fact ubiquitous and the … 12 $1.20 Add