Linda S Katz,A. Bruce Strauch's Publishing and the Law: Current Legal Issues PDF

By Linda S Katz,A. Bruce Strauch

ISBN-10: 0789007770

ISBN-13: 9780789007773

ISBN-10: 0789008122

ISBN-13: 9780789008121

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This well timed quantity sheds mild at the vital criminal concerns that impression the scholarly publishing international. The often-confusing box of publishing law--including copyright, licensing, legal responsibility, digital publishing, and taxation--is facing an extraordinary upheaval as we circulate into the twenty-first century. Publishing and the legislation: present criminal concerns bargains transparent, present reasons of the consequences of contemporary legislation and applied sciences and predicts what additional alterations to anticipate.

Featuring criminal, company, and publishing specialists, Publishing and the legislation discusses the wide-ranging implications of the decline of reasonable use, the increase of software program licensing, the Communications Decency Act, and such landmark felony circumstances as LaMacchia, Feist, and Matthew Bender. Questions of possession, reasonable use, and licensing--historically an issue for authors comparable to Twain and Dickens--have develop into exacerbated by way of the truth that info is not any longer static, yet particularly fluid and conveyable.

Publishing and the legislation addresses the important questions of curiosity to librarians, publishers, and students, together with:

  • How will altering applied sciences impact the felony prestige of libraries, universities, authors, and publishers?
  • What are the most recent developments in legal responsibility for authors and publishers?
  • How does anti-trust legislation impact library budgets?
  • Why is copyright giving approach to licensing, and what does that suggest for libraries?
  • How has the definition of reasonable use replaced?
  • Do makes an attempt to censor the web abrogate First modification rights?
  • How does digital publishing strength adjustments to the principles that labored for normal published books and journals?

In an age of advancing expertise, Congress and the courts could be known as upon with an increasing number of frequency to keep up a stability among the copyright holder's monetary pursuits and society's correct to have entry to details. Librarians, college directors, authors, and publishers can reap the benefits of Publishing and the legislations: present felony matters to assist them comprehend present traits in highbrow estate law.

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