Using proven Examples & Explanations pedagogy, this comprehensive study guide provides students with a short account of the law, followed by a variety of concrete examples and explanations that reinforce and give substance to key rules and concepts in copyright law.
New to the Fifth Edition:
- Supreme Court decisions: Varsity Brands on functionality and cheerleader uniforms, Kirtsaeng on awarding attorney’s fees even if litigant was reasonable
- Works from 1923 passing into public domain, as copyright term finally has meaning in 2019
- “Happy Birthday to You†and “We Shall Overcome†freed from copyright claims
- Cases on free software and Creative Commons licenses
- Developments in secondary liability and Web site immunity, such as YouTube and Comcast
- Fair use cases in art, music, books, software, legal briefs, big data, Google Books, online postings, and movies
- Oracle v. Google changing software copyright law
- Authorship issues involving actors, macaques, and artificial intelligence
Professors and students will benefit from:
- Up-to-date coverage of recent developments
- Practical and broad coverage of music, books, art, software, movies, data and other areas
- Realistic examples and explanations making the rules of copyright concrete and clear
- A building block approach to provide an overall understanding of copyright
