Evaluating the SOPA Protest: Facilitating theft is not freedom of speech (copyright and law)

Evaluating the SOPA Protest: Facilitating theft is not freedom of speech (copyright and law)
Patrick L. Halliwell (Author)

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An original article by Patrick L. Halliwell
Series: Copyright and law, #2.

(March, 2012)

The massive protest against the American Stop Online Piracy Act has apparently scared some politicians away from this bill. This article considers the general nature of this protest, and in particular the argument that such a law would infringe on freedom of speech. It also contains advice for general readers, and for politicians.


About the author
Patrick L. Halliwell is a Canadian author, composer and musicologist. His publications include fiction, humor, serious essays, practical items, and scholarly articles on traditional Japanese koto music. His original music combines musical principles and elements from a variety of the world's great traditions. He is also creator and producer of "Phonobites," a unique set of exercises for English pronunciation. His official website is www.lakipi.com
Patrick has created all of his works independently, and he depends upon honest readers and listeners who purchase legitimate copies of his creative works.

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Getting Permission: How to License & Clear Copyrighted Materials Online and Off

Getting Permission: How to License & Clear Copyrighted Materials Online and Off
by Richard Stim Attorney
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If you plan to use any copyrighted material for your own purposes, you need to get permission first from the owners of that work. If you don't, you could find yourself slapped with a lawsuit.

Getting Permission tackles the permissions process head on. It shines the light on whom to ask for permission, as well as when -- and how much to expect -- to pay for permission. Comprehensive and easy to read, the book covers:

the permissions process
the public domain
copyright research
fair use
academic permissions
the elements of a license and merchandise agreement
the use of a trademark or fictional character
and much more

Getting Permission includes agreements for acquiring authorization to use text, photographs, artwork and music. All agreements included as tear-outs and on CD-ROM.

The 3rd edition of this essential book is completely updated to reflect the latest laws and court decisions. (20090101)

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Clearance and Copyright: Everything You Need to Know for Film and Television

Clearance and Copyright: Everything You Need to Know for Film and Television
by Michael C. Donaldson
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Now extensively revised, updated, and expanded, "Clearance and Copyright" is the industry-standard guide to almost every conceivable rights issue that filmmakers, videomakers, and television producers might encounter: from the initial acquisition of material through the rights situations that arise during pre-production, production, post-production and release. Legalese-free, well-written, it's a must-read for all producers, directors, and writers - whether they make feature films, shorts, documentaries, television programs, music videos, or Internet content - and those who advise them. Armed with this book, you can protect yourself and your work from disastrous legal actions and save thousands of dollars in attorney fees. You can even learn how to save money by exercising your rights to use certain materials without paying anyone.

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Inventor's Notebook: A Patent It Yourself Companion

Inventor's Notebook: A Patent It Yourself Companion
by Fred Grissom, David Pressman Attorney
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Everything you need to document the invention process -- when you're done, you'll have legal proof that you created it first!

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The Tech Contracts Handbook: Software Licenses and Technology Services Agreements for Lawyers and Businesspeople

The Tech Contracts Handbook: Software Licenses and Technology Services Agreements for Lawyers and Businesspeople
by David Tollen
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This is a practical and accessible reference book and training manual on IT contracts. It's a clause-by-clause "how to" guide on software licenses and technology services agreements, covering the issues at stake and offering negotiation tips and sample contract language.

This handbook is for both lawyers and businesspeople, including contract managers, procurement officers, corporate counsel, salespeople, and anyone else responsible for getting IT deals done. Perhaps most important, this book uses simple English, like a good contract.

Topics covered include:

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Patent It Yourself: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Filing at the U.S. Patent Office

Patent It Yourself: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Filing at the U.S. Patent Office
by David Pressman Attorney
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Patent your creation with the world's bestselling guide to patents! Have a world-class idea? Ready to protect your invention from copycats? Then turn to the best resource available -- Patent It Yourself. Attorney David Pressman takes you through the entire patent process, providing scrupulously updated information and clear instructions to help you: determine if you can patent your invention; understand patent law; evaluate the commercial potential of your idea; perform your own patent search; file a provisional patent application; prepare a formal patent application; respond to patent examiners; amend an application; enforce and maintain your patent; market and license your invention. Thoroughly updated to reflect the latest changes in intellectual property law, this edition also provides the latest U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rules and forms. It includes up-to-date details on filing procedures and patent law, including a 2010 Supreme Court ruling on protection for business method and software patents. Whether you're new at the inventing game or a grizzled veteran, Patent It Yourself will save you grief, time and money.

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Legal Guide for the Visual Artist (Fifth Edition)

Legal Guide for the Visual Artist (Fifth Edition)
by Tad Crawford
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This classic guide for artists is completely revised and updated to provide an in-depth view of the legal issues facing the visual artist today and provides practical legal guidance for any visual artist involved with creative work. Among the many new topics covered in this comprehensive guide are: detailed coverage of the myriad developments in copyright (including online copyright registration procedures and use of art on the Internet); changes in laws protecting artists in artist-gallery relationships are explained in depth; scope of First Amendment protections for graffiti art and the sale of art in public spaces; detailed as well as new cases dealing with art and privacy; and a model contract for Web site design and much more.

The book also covers copyrights, moral rights, contracts, licensing, sales, special risks and protections for art and artists, book publishing, video and multimedia works, leases, taxation, estate planning, museums, collecting, grants, and how to find the best professional advisers and attorneys. In addition, the book suggests basic strategies for negotiation, gives information to help with further action, contains many sample legal forms and contracts, and shows how to locate artists' groups and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts organizations.

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Hollywood's Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet (Film and Culture Series)

Hollywood's Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet (Film and Culture Series)
by Peter Decherney
Publication Date: April 10, 2012

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Copyright law is important to every stage of media production and reception. It helps determine filmmakers' artistic decisions, Hollywood's corporate structure, and the varieties of media consumption. The rise of digital media and the internet has only expanded copyright's reach. Everyone from producers and sceenwriters to amateur video makers, file sharers, and internet entrepreneurs has a stake in the history and future of piracy, copy protection, and the public domain.

Beginning with Thomas Edison's aggressive patent and copyright disputes and concluding with recent lawsuits against YouTube and Universal, Hollywood's Copyright Wars follows the struggle of the film, television, and digital media industries to influence and adapt to copyright law. Many of Hollywood's most valued treasures, from Modern Times (1936) to Star Wars (1977), cannot be fully understood without appreciating their legal controversies. Peter Decherney shows that the history of intellectual property in Hollywood has not always mirrored the evolution of the law. Many landmark decisions have barely changed the industry's behavior, while some quieter policies have had revolutionary effects. His most remarkable contribution uncovers Hollywood's reliance on self-regulation. Rather than involve congress, judges, or juries in settling copyright disputes, studio heads and filmmakers have often kept such arguments "in house," turning to talent guilds and other groups for solutions. Whether the issue has been battling piracy in the 1900s, controlling the threat of home video, or managing modern amateur and noncommercial uses of protected content, much of Hollywood's engagement with the law has occurred offstage, in the larger theater of copyright. Decherney's unique history recounts these extralegal solutions and their impact on American media and culture.

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Invention Analysis and Claiming: A Patent Lawyer's Guide

Invention Analysis and Claiming: A Patent Lawyer's Guide
by Ronald D. Slusky
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This book is a comprehensive approach to analyzing inventions and capturing them in a sophisticated set of patent claims. It provides the reader with practical pointers and guidance and uses everyday inventions as references, such as the ball point pen and paperclip.

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The Idea Writers: Copywriting in a New Media and Marketing Era (Advertising Age)

The Idea Writers: Copywriting in a New Media and Marketing Era (Advertising Age)
by Teressa Iezzi
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This book is a must read for any copywriter and anyone looking to understand the new realities of the brand creativity business.
A memorable slogan has been the cornerstone of every great ad campaign. In the past, writing one great headline could launch a career. But today's advertising campaigns are interactive, multi-platform and ongoing, and the copywriter's canvas is vast. At any given time, a copywriter may be conceiving a video game, writing a TV show, maintaining a Twitter feed, creating a mobile app or an interactive installation or, yes, writing a headline or a TV script.

While the best copywriters have always been brand storytellers, now that story can play out anywhere. The digital revolution put control in the hands of the people - the audience - now no longer just consumers, but active participants in a brand's story.
The art and science of advertising has gone from creating one-way messages to engaging audiences in ongoing conversations.
A new ad landscape means new opportunities for writers who now have the incredible opportunity to push brand narrative to places it's never been before and to actually create something so useful or entertaining that it generates its own audience. It also means that many of the rules of the past - while exceedingly worthy of study - are insufficient to guide the modern copywriter. Co-published with AdvertisingAge, The Idea Writers outlines the changing landscape of the advertising industry while providing useful how-to advice.

Filled with interviews from top creatives including:
Greg Hahn, Nick Law, Jeff Benjamin, Tim Delaney, Rei Inamoto, Lee Clow, Steve Simpson, Rick Condos, David Droga, Gerry Graf, Ty Montague, Calle and Pelle Sjonell, PJ Pereira, David Abbott and many more!

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Patent Law, Third Edition (Aspen Treatise Series)

Patent Law, Third Edition (Aspen Treatise Series)
by Janice M. Mueller
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Patent Law, Third Edition, explores and explains landmark and important recent cases as it demystifies the field. Janice M. Mueller illuminates key doctrines, judicial authorities, statutes, and policy considerations at an appropriate level for students, attorneys, or laypersons with no technical background. Suitable for use with any patent casebook, this focused, lucid, and comprehensive text features: clarifies the principal legal doctrines, key judicial authority, governing statutes, and policy considerations for obtaining and enforcing a U.S. patent a dedicated chapter that addresses central aspects of international patent law as they affect U.S. practice boldfaced key terms in context and a convenient Glossary helpful visual aids, a sample patent, and excerpts from a sample prosecution history Updated throughout, the Third Edition of Patent Law presents:Recent U.S. Supreme Court patent decisions that are fundamentally rewriting Patent Law, including: eBay v. MercExchange, regarding standards for injunctive relief KSR Int'l v. Teleflex, regarding the nonobviousness requirement of patentability Microsoft v. AT&T, regarding territorial scope of U.S. patents MedImmune v. Genentech, regarding subject matter jurisdiction for declaratory judgment actions Quanta v. LG Elecs, regarding patent exhaustion doctrine Leading new decisions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, including the court's en banc decisions in Seagate Tech, regarding willful infringement Egyptian Goddess v. Swisa, regarding design patent infringement In re Bilski, regarding business method patentability. When students need extra help with patent law, you can recommend this succinct, single-volume text with confidence.

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Patent, Copyright & Trademark: An Intellectual Property Desk Reference

Patent, Copyright & Trademark: An Intellectual Property Desk Reference
by Richard Stim Attorney
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Whether you're investigating patent, copyright or trademark law, get the most concise and comprehensive explanations of intellectual property in one volume!

Whether you're an Edison, Faulkner or Jobs, you need Patent, Copyright & Trademark.

Intellectual property law has rapidly produced its own language. But don't count on understanding it right off the bat -- the terms baffle lawyers and lay folk alike. Whether you're an inventor, designer, writer or programmer, you need to understand the language of intellectual property law to intelligently deal with such issues as:

who owns creative works or valuable information

how these owners can protect and enforce their ownership rights

how disputes between intellectual property owners can be resolved, and

how ownership rights can best be transferred to others.

With this essential guide, you will:

get clear overviews of relevant laws

understand the different kinds of protection offered by patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets -- and which apply to your work

get a plain-English definition of every term you're likely to come across, and

find the information you need, quickly and easily -- all entries are organized by topic and extensively cross-referenced.

The 11th edition includes an expanded dictionary of borderline IP terms and reflects the many changes resulting from legislation and case law. It also includes a new Q&A section excerpted from the author's regularly updated "Dear Rich" blog. (20080902)

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Clearance & Copyright: Everything You Need to Know for Film and Television

Clearance & Copyright: Everything You Need to Know for Film and Television
by Michael C. Donaldson
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Now extensively revised, updated, and expanded, "Clearance and Copyright" is the industry-standard guide to almost every conceivable rights issue that filmmakers, videomakers, and television producers might encounter: from the initial acquisition of material through the rights situations that arise during pre-production, production, post-production and release. Legalese-free, well-written, it's a must-read for all producers, directors, and writers - whether they make feature films, shorts, documentaries, television programs, music videos, or Internet content - and those who advise them. Armed with this book, you can protect yourself and your work from disastrous legal actions and save thousands of dollars in attorney fees. You can even learn how to save money by exercising your rights to use certain materials without paying anyone.

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How to Fix Copyright

How to Fix Copyright
by William Patry
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Do copyright laws directly cause people to create works they otherwise wouldn't create? Do those laws directly put substantial amounts of money into authors' pockets? Does culture depend on copyright? Are copyright laws a key driver of competitiveness and of the knowledge economy?

These are the key questions William Patry addresses in How to Fix Copyright. We all share the goals of increasing creative works, ensuring authors can make a decent living, furthering culture and competitiveness and ensuring that knowledge is widely shared, but what role does copyright law actually play in making these things come true in the real world? Simply believing in lofty goals isn't enough. If we want our goals to come true, we must go beyond believing in them; we must ensure they come true, through empirical testing and adjustment.

Patry argues that laws must be consistent with prevailing markets and technologies because technologies play a large (although not exclusive) role in creating consumer demand; markets then satisfy that demand. Patry discusses how copyright laws arose out of eighteenth-century markets and technology, the most important characteristic of which was artificial scarcity. Artificial scarcity was created by the existence of a small number gatekeepers, by relatively high barriers to entry, and by analog limitations on copying.

Markets and technologies change, in a symbiotic way, Patry asserts. New technologies create new demand, requiring new business models. The new markets created by the Internet and digital tools are the greatest ever: Barriers to entry are low, costs of production and distribution are low, the reach is global, and large sums of money can be made off of a multitude of small transactions. Along with these new technologies and markets comes the democratization of creation; digital abundance is replacing analog artificial scarcity.

The task of policymakers is to remake our copyright laws to fit our times: our copyright laws, based on the eighteenth century concept of physical copies, gatekeepers, and artificial scarcity, must be replaced with laws based on access not ownership of physical goods, creation by the masses and not by the few, and global rather than regional markets. Patry's view is that of a traditionalist who believes in the goals of copyright but insists that laws must match the times rather than fight against the present and the future.

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