Copyright

Copyright: Examples And Explanations (Examples & Explanations)
$43.95
Can't agree with the review below. This book isn't really for novices, probably for the same reason the below reviewer noted: the book doesn't have too much in the way of explanatory material. Plenty of examples/explanations, however, and really this is why I would recommend the book. Copyright isn't too difficult to understand in the abstract, which I why I suppose too much explanatory material isn't necessary. It's when you're in the weeds and are trying to apply principles to muddy facts that things get difficult, and the book is certainly useful for that.

Again, not really for a novice, because it goes quickly through the material. It's useful for when you've already read the casebook and are outlining and reviewing for a final exam, in which case it's quite functional: it gives you plenty of practice and plugs gaps in your understanding.

Copyright Cases and Materials
$146.00
The 7th edition is an excellent text-reference on copyright. Footnotes and end-of-chapter questions add significant value to the treatment. Photos are poorly reproduced in this volume, but adequate to convey the intended arguments.

Supplementary materials to this volume could be useful, but not evaluated here.

Wide page margins provide for easy note taking.

Patent, Copyright & Trademark: An Intellectual Property Desk Reference
$39.99
We received our order in 2-3 days in new condition. We are taking a class so I ordered early assuming that it would take longer. To my suprise, we already have our new books in half the time for almost half the price. Great buy!!

Copyright's Paradox
$34.95
As the title indicates, this book examines the great paradox of modern copyright law in America. Copyright was meant to encourage and protect creativity, but is now used to restrict that same expression. For the layperson, copyright law may seem to be a guarantee of compensation for an artist's expressive works for a limited time, after which that expression enters the public domain for the benefit of all Americans. But in the real world (that is, the modern legal and business environment), corporations have hijacked copyright law for ensuring profits and suppressing contrarian speakers, and have heavily lobbied courts and lawmakers to accept this fractured anti-speech and anti-market definition of "expression." In another paradox, media industries complain about how new computerized tools damage their profits and beg lawmakers to stop the proliferation of those tools, while at the same time using that very same technology to gain rights and market power far beyond what copyright allows. Thus, today's legal landscape for copyright is a severe mutation of the law's original intent (from the Founding Fathers) as an engine to promote speech and the progress of knowledge.

As an academic researcher on this subject, I have seen many commentators bemoan these modern problems with copyright law in a variety of settings. But with this book, Netanel has created the most authoritative and concise study yet of the un-American mutation of copyright law into a vehicle for unfettered media industry profits, while it inexorably drifts away from its origins as an incentive for creativity and an engine of free expression. Netanel concludes the book with highly plausible (though overly ambitious, politically speaking) solutions that could just get copyright law back where it belongs - in the creative minds of the people. [~doomsdayer520~]