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Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Explains how copyrights, public domain, trademarks, and patents work and discusses how readers can use this information when gathering research information and citing sources. Reveals how one can use Creative Commons to share and gather information and includes color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.
2) Goodbye girl
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Piracy costs the movie and music industry billions. No one has been able to stop it. But that won't stop Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck. His latest client, Imani Nichols, is a Grammy-winning popstar whose career has skyrocketed. Despite her success, she's the most underpaid superstar on the planet because of an onerous record contract she signed as a teenager with her now ex-husband Shaky Nichols, who has made himself rich off her royalties....
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvii, 147 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Copyright policies take the guess work out of daily library practices such as interlibrary loan, digitization, 3D printing, and using other people's works to advertise library events. Use this book to get guidance on how to create copyright policies and workflows for your library. The book includes sample policies from all types of libraries: academic, public, government, and private"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
1180L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (104 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Provides information about copyrights, presenting arguments for and against the Underground Internet. Includes a glossary, chapter notes, and a list of additional resources.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 309 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Deep within the archives of time-and-motion pioneer Lillian Gilbreth lies a secret. Famous for producing solid light-tracks that captured the path of workers' movements, Gilbreth helped birth the era of mass observation and big data. But did she also, as her broken correspondence with a young Soviet physicist suggests, discover in her final days a "perfect" movement, one that would "change everything"? An international hunt begins for the one box...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
535 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Today's copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made copyright -- and its violation -- a part of everyday life, fights over intellectual property have pitted creators, Hollywood, and governments against consumers, pirates, Silicon Valley, and open-access advocates. But while the digital generation can be forgiven for thinking the dispute between, for example, the publishing industry and Google is completely...
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxv, 162 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? This is a book about the pitfalls and the opportunities that creative industries (and individuals) are confronting today -- about how the old models have failed or found new footing, and about what might soon replace them. Information...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
3rd ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 192 pages : illustrations, forms ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
The advancement of innovative education, librarianship, and scholarship has become increasingly entangled with copyright law. Research and education seem to be routinely reinvented with the creation of new software and technological devices. Private agreements are becoming a dominant force on the shape of legal rights and responsibilities.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 240 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the increasingly complex and combative arena of copyright in the digital age, record companies sue college students over peer-to-peer music sharing, YouTube removes home movies because of a song playing in the background, and filmmakers are denied a distribution deal when a permissions "i" proves undottable. Analyzing the dampening effect that copyright law can have on scholarship and creativity, Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi urge us to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xviii, 228 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Copyright law was once an esoteric backwater, the special province of professional authors, publishers, and media companies. This is no longer the case. In the age of social media and cloud storage, we have become a copying and sharing culture. Much of our everyday communication, work, and entertainment now directly involves copyright law. Copyright law and policy are ferociously contested. Record labels, movie studios, book publishers, newspapers,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xii, 128 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Today, educators and students have access to a vast, rich array of online materials that can be used for instruction, but these resources often remain untapped because of confusion over copyright laws. In this slim jargon-free guide, media literacy expert Renee Hobbs presents simple principles for applying copyright law and the doctrine of fair use to 21st-century teaching and learning. Complete with a ready-to-go staff development workshop, this...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
475 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On the day she went silent, Speth never meant for anyone to follow her lead--or to start a rebellion of Silents. But after taking down the tyrant Silas Rog and freeing the city from his grasp, everyone is looking to Speth for answers she doesn't have. All she wants is to find her parents, who are shackled to a lifetime of servitude in exchange for a debt they can never repay. But how can Speth leave her friends to fend for themselves when she's the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Physical Desc
392 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Preparing to deliver her Last Day speech to celebrate her new adulthood in a world where every word and gesture is copyrighted, patented or trademarked, a 15-year-old girl elects to remain silent rather than pay to speak, a decision that threatens to unravel the fabric of society.
In a world where every word and gesture is copyrighted, patented or trademarked, one girl elects to remain silent rather than pay to speak, and her defiant and unexpected...