The Copyright Law

Revision of the Copyright Law

something they would otherwise be free to do, the right to prohibit thenm from copying and distributing material which has been published. A patent constitutes a truer analogy. In common law, if an invention can be used and still kept secret by the Those who introduced the medical research bill had to make a hard decision not to accept a compromiiise ot the original specifications, including an...

Copyright Law and Organizing the Internet

A Question in the Law of Copyright

In Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, in U. S, 53 (1884), the question was presented, to what extent Congress was within its constitutional powers in attempting to grant exclusive rights to the "author, inventor, designer or proprietor of any . , photograph." Rev. St. § 4952. The subject-matter of the case was a photograph of Oscar Wilde, who was specially posed for the occasion. The argu...

Should Not Be Protected by Copyright Law

Until Lotus and Apple sued their competitors for copyright infringement, software user interface designers did not think much about whether intellectual property law might impose some constraints on their design decisions. Even those who knew that copyrights were available to protect software probably understood this to mean simply that a person would have to write his or her own code to develo...

Access-Right: The Future of Digital Copyright Law

Will reading habit influence your life? Many say yes. Reading access right the future of digital copyright law is a good habit; you can develop this habit to be such interesting way. Yeah, reading habit will not only make you have any favourite activity. It will be one of guidance of your life. When reading has become a habit, you will not make it as disturbing activities or as boring activity....