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Intellectual Property in the Age of Universal Access
Intellectual Property in the Age of Universal Access Author:Pamela Samuelson The challenge in Intellectual Property Law today is to understand not only the constantly changing and developing trends and policies, but to also understand the technology that fuels them. ACM, The Association for Computing Machinery, hopes that this new volume, Intellectual Property in the Age of Universal Access, will act as a link betw... more »een lawyers and information technology specialists and provide unique perspectives on they way the two fields affect each other. Written by some of the most influential minds in the Intellectual Property and Informational Technology fields, this compendium of seventeen articles includes topics such as: *Trademark disputes
*E-commerce laws and long arm jurisdictions
*The Communications Decency Act
*Practical legalities of software reverse engineering
*Encoding the law of digital libraries
*Privacy considerations
*Look-and-feel and fair use lawsuits
*Cryptography's role in securing information
*Does information really need to be licensed?
*Embedding technical self-help in licensed software