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  • Explaining Wealth Inequality

    Property, Possession and Policy Reform

    by Benedict Atkinson ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    This book discusses the origins of wealth inequality and explains how societies can reform to avoid the catastrophe of inequality-induced social breakdown. It develops a theoretical and practical understanding of the principles behind the concept of ownership and property, complete with historical examples.It proposes a new research perspective focusing on how the problem of wealth concentration ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The True History of Copyright

    The Australian Experience 1905-2005

    by Benedict Atkinson ...
    How did copyright laws come into being? Were they designed to encourage production and dissemination? Are current policy assumptions justified? Critics claim that laws facilitate predatory pricing and distribution controls, denying millions access to material. Advocates argue that legislation creates productive incentive. Without stringent legal safeguards creators and producers will produce much ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Copyright Future Copyright Freedom

    Marking the 40th Anniversary of the Commencement of Australia's Copyright Act 1968

    Edited by Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Benedict Atkinson ...
    If copyright law does not liberate us from restrictions on the dissemination of knowledge, if it does not encourage expressive freedom, what is its purpose?This volume offers the thinking and suggestions of some of the finest minds grappling with the future of copyright regulation. The Copyright Future Copyright Freedom conference, held in 2009 at Old Parliament House, Canberra, brought together ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Short History of Copyright

    The Genie of Information

    by Benedict Atkinson, Brian Fitzgerald ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book tells the story of how, over centuries, people, society and culture created laws affecting supply of information. In the 21 century, uniform global copyright laws are claimed to be indispensable to the success of entertainment, internet and other information industries. Do copyright laws encourage information flow? Many say that copyright laws limit dissemination, harming society. In the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Copyright Law

    Volume II: Application to Creative Industries in the 20th Century

    by Benedict Atkinson ...
    Series series The Library of Essays on Copyright Law
    This volume reproduces writings, social teachings, testimonies and reports of figures as diverse as Karl Marx, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, and bodies such as the US Congress. Extracted material charts the development of an international system of copyright regulation, and the growth, in the 20th century, of copyright industries benefitting from new copyright laws. In the second ... Read more

    $500.00 USD

  • Copyright Law

    Volume III: Copyright in the 21st Century

    by Benedict Atkinson ...
    Series series The Library of Essays on Copyright Law
    This volume shows how, since 1950, the growth of copyright regulation has followed, and enabled, the extraordinary economic growth of the entertainment, broadcasting, software and communications industries. It reproduces articles written by an extensive list of leading thinkers. US scholars represented in readings include James Boyle, Lawrence Lessig, Pamela Samuelson, Mark Lemley, Alfred Yen, ... Read more

    $535.00 USD

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  • Bourinot's Rules of Order

    A Manual on the Practices and Usages of the House of Commons of Canada and on the Procedure at Public Assemblies, Including Meetings of Shareholders

    by Geoffrey Stanford ...
    Nervous about chairing a meeting? Puzzled by the lingo of quorums and motions and adjournments? Wondering how to prevent someone from monopolizing the discussion?Bourinot's Rules of Order is the definitive guide to conducting meetings, large and small, formal and relaxed. Based on the procedures of the House of Commons in Ottawa, these rules outline all the steps and the details you need to know ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics

    by Stephen Breyer ...
    A sitting justice reflects upon the authority of the Supreme Court—how that authority was gained and how measures to restructure the Court could undermine both the Court and the constitutional system of checks and balances that depends on it.A growing chorus of officials and commentators argues that the Supreme Court has become too political. On this view the confirmation process is just an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Conflict of Laws: A Comparative Approach

    Text and Cases

    by Gilles Cuniberti ...
    The Conflict of Laws, also known as private international law, is a field of the greatest importance in an increasingly globalized world. The analysis of any legal issue, in a case involving more than one country, must start with an assessment of which court could potentially hear the case and which law it would apply ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Trade Secrecy and International Transactions

    Law and Practice

    by Elizabeth Rowe, Sharon K. Sandeen ...
    Series series Elgar Intellectual Property Law and Practice series
    Trade secret protection has long been of critical strategic importance to business interests and globalization of commerce has driven an increasing need to govern the preservation of confidentiality in international business transactions. This book offers an authoritative and unparalleled resource on US and international trade secret law and identifies optimal practices for securing trade secrets ... Read more

    $167.99 USD

  • International Copyright

    Principles, Law, and Practice

    by Paul Goldstein, P. Bernt Hugenholtz ...
    International Copyright: Principles, Law, and Practice surveys and analyzes the legal doctrines affecting copyright practice around the world, in both transactional and litigation settings. It provides a step-by-step methodology for advising clients involved in exploiting creative works in or from foreign countries. Written by two of the most esteemed experts of copyright law in the United States ... Read more

    $90.99 USD

  • Freedom of Speech

    by Eric Barendt ...
    This is a fully revised and updated new edition of the classic work first published in 1985. There have been many important developments since the first edition, including enactment of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada in 1982, the impact of the European Human Rights Convention, and the consideration by English courts of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. Social and ... Read more

    $79.19 USD