Intellectual Property

Bloomberg Law covers evolving copyright law around the world prepared by local specialists to address advances in technology and the adoption of new communications media. National legislation, international treaties and judicial decisions in various countries provide meaningful protection of intellectual property rights and encourage continued growth and development of new technologies.
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The Law of Copyright provides a practical foundation in copyright law that goes beyond basic rules, decisions, and statutes, to analyze the history and arguments that surround specific issues in copyright law. This work also offers help in developing a line of argument in a brief.
Coverage includes the idea–expression dichotomy, preemption, duration, renewal, remedies, fair use, and the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
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The leading multi-volume title on copyright and the title cited most frequently, has comprehensive analysis of modern U.S. copyright law affecting printed works, plays and motion pictures, music, artistic property, software and digital content delivered over the Internet. It includes the Copyright Act, and Digital Millennium Copyright Act, as well as copyright protection to combat piracy and rules to determine liability for online infringement.
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LexisNexis Digital (Access limited to NYLS community members)

Patry on Copyright provides circuit-by-circuit breakdown of case law on pertinent litigation issues, comprehensive coverage of U.S. copyright law, including the latest court decisions, relevant statutes, regulations, treaties, and legislative histories, discussion of remedial, jurisdictional, choice of law, and international issues.
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Topics include works of authorship, categories of copyrightable subject matter, ownership of copyright, copyright registration and deposit, infringement and remedies, fair use and other defenses, copyright law in a federal system, preemption of state law and an overview of international copyright. In addition to including the latest case law developments, this edition incorporates the Music Modernization Act of 2018.