| The Illustrated Story of Copyright by Edward Samuels |
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| Booknews Writing for the general reader, Samuels (copyright, contracts, commercial law, bankruptcy, and legal method, New York Law School) explains what copyright is, how it works, how it may evolve to accommodate new technologies, and what exactly it is capable of protecting. The illustrations primarily compare original and similar products or images that courts have ruled copyright cases about. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) What People Are Saying A lively and informed introduction to copyright law, The Illustrated Story of Copyright is as timely as it is readable. - (Paul Goldstein, Stanford Law School, author of Copyright's Highway) Jane C. Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, Columbia University School of Law Copyright is often seen as an impediment to personal enjoyment, or as the engine of corporate greed. In this hostile environment, Professor Edward Samuels's The Illustrated Story of Copyright...is a welcome corrective. Samuels brings to life the inventors, investors, authors and users whose sometimes competing interests shaped the...contours of modern copyright law. - Jane C. Ginsburg Ralph Oman, former Register of Copyrights Prof. Samuels gives us a lively sampling of both copyright law and copyright lore...With its informal humor, its social history, its non-legal style, and its snappy illustrations, it will place the current controversies over digital technologies in their historic continuum...Absolutely absorbing from cover to cover. - Ralph Oman |