Research Catalog

Title

Intellectual property : the many faces of the public domain / edited by Charlotte Waelde, Hector MacQueen.

Publication

Cheltenham ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Waelde, Charlotte.
• MacQueen, Hector L.

Description

xviii, 262 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

As technological progress marches on, so anxiety over the shape of the public domain is likely to continue if not increase. This collection helps to define the boundaries within which the debate over the shape of law and policy should take place.

Subject

• Intellectual property > Philosophy
• Public domain (Copyright law)
• Technological innovations > Law and legislation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

In search of the public domain during the prehistory of copyright law -- Copyright's public domain -- The public domain: right or liberty? -- The public domain and international intellectual property law treaties -- The public interest in the public domain -- Altering the contours of the public domain -- Creativity, innovation and intellectual property: a new approach for the 21st century -- The public domain and the librarian -- The public domain and the creative author -- The public domain and the economist -- The public domain and public sector information -- Audiences in tradition: traditional knowledge and the public domain -- Scientific research agendas: controlled and shaped by the scope of patentability -- The public domain: ideology vs. interest -- A rights-free world-is it workable, and what is the point? -- The priorities, the values, the public.

ISBN

• 9781845428747 (hbk.)
• 1845428749 (hbk.)

LCCN

2006026431^^

OCLC

85691930

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library