Halbert – Resisting Intellectual Property Law
Halbert, Debora J. Resisting Intellectual Property Law. New York: Routledge, 2005. Print. Introduction Book Overview: Chapter 1: This chapter considers the public domain – it defines the original intent of the public domain before moving on to consider how it is “interwoven” with copyright law in order to point out how this concept serves the “public” as opposed to the “private.” By rejuvenating the... Read More
Wysocki et al. – Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition
Wysocki, Anne Frances et al. Writing New Media : Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Utah State University Press, 2004. Print. Opening New Media to Writing: Openings and Justifications (Wysocki) W. references Bolter and Kress early on in this first chapter to point out the fact that writing is always changing; however, today, writing’s “material practice” is changing in fairly quick and momentous ways. ... Read More
CCR711 – Tawfik – The Internationalization of IP Law
Tawfik, Myra J. “No Longer Living in Splendid Isolation: The Globalization of National Courts and the Internationalization of Intellectual Property Law.” Queen’s Law Journal 32 2 (2007): 573-601. Print. Tawfik uses this journal article to achieve two purposes. First, she is interested in establishing a coherent definition of “transjudicialism” or the reference and application of foreign laws in domestic court cases. Despite... Read More
Hansmann and Santilli – Authors’ and Artists’ Moral Rights
Hansmann, Henry and Marina Santilli. “Authors’ and Artists’ Moral Rights: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis.” The Journal of Legal Studies 26 1 (1997): 95-143. Print. This article considers the European civil-law jurisdiction of “moral rights” and their recent adoption in the United States. Moral rights are essentially an artists’ – or deceased artists’ family’s – rights to works of art even after... Read More
