Joanna Penn: «The Self - Publisher's Legal Handbook», and there are some other ones, some other
books about intellectual property and copyright and things... it's expensive to hire an attorney, right?
Not exact matches
Adapted from Ernest Cline's terrible novel, Ready Player One dials down the
book's self - satisfied checklisting but, disastrously, tacks on a «gather ye rosebuds» message
about how reality — without all the
intellectual property worship and dork one - upmanship — is ultimately preferable to virtual reality.
Rather, education plays a role with parallels to that of the
book reviewer and critic, as they are all engaged in cultivating a discerning audience, eager to engage with what is best
about such
intellectual properties.
Another strength of this
book is that it focuses on areas that have been given short shrift in previous works on Canadian copyright: users» rights (an area of increasing importance, since most public discourse
about copyright focuses on what we can't do rather than what we can); aboriginal approaches to
intellectual property rights (which emphasize the protection of the honour of clans, cultures, and nations over the rights of individual creators); digital rights management (and its spectacular failure to actually protect content); and public licensing systems (such as the Creative Commons licenses).
The
book is unique in its coverage of international and transactional issues as well as traditional
intellectual property law and policy, and has been adopted by
about a dozen schools beyond the home schools of the authors.