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Title

• The librarian's guide to intellectual property in the digital age : copyrights, patents, and trademarks / Timothy Lee Wherry.

Author

Wherry, Timothy Lee

Publication

Chicago : American Library Association, 2002.

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Description

viii, 170 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This volume is a guide to intellectual property. Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. This work includes an introduction to the basics of copyrights, patents, and trademarks and written especially to serve the needs and questions of librarians. The issue of what constitutes fair use, modern-day disputes over file swapping services such as Napster, common misconceptions about patent, among many other topics, is presented in easy-to-understand terms.

Alternative Title

Intellectual property in the digital age

Subject

• Intellectual property > United States
• Internet searching > United States
• Propiedad intelectual > Estados Unidos
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-162) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

An introduction to intellectual property: copyrights, patents and trademarks -- Copyright -- Fair use -- Napster, CONFU, and the DMCA -- Intellectual property and the courts -- Patents -- Misconceptions about patents -- Patent searching: locating the field of search -- Patent searching: determining the prior act -- Trademarks -- Questions and answers about intellectual property.

ISBN

083890825X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002283091

OCLC

49502685

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library