Overview
This collection of essays by Australian, New Zealand and Canadian authors, addresses some of the issues that face our society in deciding how best to handle access to, and monopolies over, knowledge. It includes detailed examination of the social, political and legal implications of free and open source software, and the future of copyright in the digital age. Topics covered include: disclosure for security and competitive reasons in relation to open source and proprietary software and government systems; flow licensing and contracting in the Canadian public sector; an overview of the US Federal Communications Commission rules in relation to free software; the implications of Jacobsen v Katzer for the legality of software licensing; public access to primary legal information; key legal issues for blogs; the Virgin Mobile case and the use of Creative Commons licensed photographs by commercial entitites; the Google Print Library project; third-party copyright and public information infrastructure and registries; academic authorship, publishing agreements and open access in Australia, and the legal framework for managing copyright and open access; rights to access to digital information; digital copyright reform in New Zealand.
Full Product Details
Author: Mark Perry ,
Brian Fitzgerald
Publisher: Irwin Law Inc
Imprint: Irwin Law Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.590kg
ISBN: 9781552211724
ISBN 10: 155221172
Pages: 430
Publication Date: 12 December 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Mark Perry is Associate Dean Research, Graduate Studies and Operations at The University of Western Ontario. He is internationally renowned for his research into the interface between law and new technologies, in particular in intellectual property and software licensing. He has published in this field in Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. He has addressed audiences in these and other countries, usually as an invited speaker. Recent publications, not listed below, include a new chapter on Technology Law for the reference work Butterworths' looseleaf Electronic Business Law. He is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Law Society of Upper Canada, a Faculty Fellow at IBM's Center for Advanced Studies, a correspondent for the Computer Law & Security Report, and a member of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, and the Association of Computer Machinery (ACM) and a committee member of the ACM Special Interest Group of Computers in Society. He is a reviewer for multiple granting societies and associations. Brian Fitzgerald is an internationally recognized scholar specializing in Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw. He holds post-graduate degrees in law from Oxford University and Harvard University and his recent publications include Cyberlaw: Cases and Materials on the Internet, Digital Intellectual Property and E-commerce (2002); Jurisdiction and the Internet (2004); Intellectual Property in Principle (2004), and Internet and E-commerce Law (2007). Over the past ten years, Brian has delivered seminars on Information Technology, Internet, and Intellectual Property Law in Australia, Canada, China, Brazil, New Zealand, US, Nepal, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Norway, Croatia, France, Thailand, Slovakia, and the Netherlands. Brian is a Chief Investigator and Program Leader for Law in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence on Creative Industries and Innovation and is Project Leader for the Australian government-funded Open Access to Knowledge Law Project (OAK Law) (see: www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au) and Legal Framework for e-Research Project. He is also a Program Leader for the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information. His current projects include work on intellectual property issues across the areas of copyright, digital content and the Internet, copyright and the creative industries in China, open content licensing and the Creative Commons, Free/Libre Open Source Software, research use of patents, patent transparency, science commons, e-research, licensing of digital entertainment, and anti-circumvention law. From 1998-2002 Brian was Head of the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University in New South Wales, Australia, and from January 2002 - January 2007 he was Head of the School of Law at QUT in Brisbane. He is currently a specialist Research Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation at QUT. He is also a Barrister of the High Court of Australia.
