Intellectual Property Rights Issues of Digital Publishing - Presence and Perspectives

Writing and Publishing Textbooks and Students' Rights from the Perspective of Islam and Intellectual Property Rights

The right to education, as a basic human right, is essential for all members of society, and its realization requires special facilities and tools. Textbooks are considered to be the most important tool that should be provided to learners and students in an appropriate and standard and comprehensive manner, without discrimination and not for profit. The aim of this study was to determine the st...

Intellectual Property Rights in Musical Works: Overview, Digital Library Issues and Related Initiatives

1. Intellectual Property Rights in Musical Works Our nation’s Founding Fathers incorporated copyright principles into the U.S. Constitution in order to foster the creation and dissemination of intellectual works for the public good. The federal copyright law supports these goals by permitting authors to reap rewards from their creative efforts for limited periods of time, while also benefitting...

Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights: A Digital Library Context

Introduction Recently a watershed moment occurred in the world of intellectual and cultural property rights in Aotearoa, New Zealand, when the "Toi Iho" trademark [1] was launched at the Auckland City Art Gallery. Elders and leaders of the art world and of the tangata whenua — the indigenous local tribe — gathered to celebrate the physical reality of an idea/passion/signifier that had been disc...

Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights

We study the determinants of patent suits and their outcomes over the period 1978-1999 by linking detailed information from the U.S. patent office, the federal court system, and industry sources. The probability of being involved in a suit is very heterogeneous, being much higher for valuable patents and for patents owned by individuals and smaller firms. Thus the patent system generates incent...

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