It's the definitive guide to the public domain, the creative works that aren't protected by copyright and can be freely copied and used without permission--or permission fees.
In fact, our system now criminalizes those very actions. Remix is an urgent, eloquent plea to end a war that harms every intrepid, creative user of new technologies.
In this book the authors argue that in order to understand many of the problems currently confronting the law, it is necessary to understand its past. This is its first detailed historical account.
Provides an overview of intellectual property law, including what legal rights apply to a work, what trade-secret law protects, and the scope of copyright protection.
O'Neill assembled a band of rogue cartoonists called the Air Pirates (after a group of villains who had bedeviled Mickey Mouse in comic books and cartoons).
While the public and the media have been distracted by the story of Napster, warnings about the evils of "piracy", and lawsuits by the recording and film industries, the enforcement of copyright law in the digital world has quietly shifted ...