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.........................................................................................................................DescriptionThe Law on intellectual property is in its infancy. Intellectual Property Law is both technologically sensitive. Since intellectual creations have big money riding on them, the statutory guarantee becomes necessary to protect industries. At the same time, the law must ensure that intellectual creations enrich the public domain of knowledge.The literacy piece revisits the institutionalization of the global intellectual property regime and describe its various species – patents, copyright, trademarks and trade secret. Explaining the undertones of these concepts, it dispels the rumours and myths commonly associated with the generic term – “intellectual property”. The wok graduates to examine Copyright law and presents this branch from a multi-dimensional perspective. Law books are generally classified as either Academic or Commentary and as theoretical or offering a practioner’s perspective. The Desk Book is a hybrid. It offers commentaries on the Indian Copyright Act and Expounds the role and function of the law on the touchstone of knowledge, Access & Development. This Book attempts to showcase both the law as it exists in text and how it operates in the practical context. Case studies on the practical operation of the copyright law succinctly highlight the challenges and threats to copyright and how the law should respond to assert its impact.The writings have been authored from a “Universal” perspective and is a must for your shelf whether you belong to the Bar or the Bench or just a bystander wanting to open the doors to this beautiful world of intellectual creations and law that protect them..........................................................................................................................Author DetailsAkhil Prasad is a final year student of law (batch of 2004-09), pursuing the five year B.Com. LL.B. (Rons.) integrated degree course from Gujarat National Law University at Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The author has a number of international and national publications in reputed journals and books (collective works) in the field of intellectual property, data protection, information technology, policy making and computer technologies. He has gained work experience by way of internships in leading law firms including FoxMandal Little and specialised IP Firms and corporate including S. Majumdar and Co., Enviroway Bio-Science Ltd., Indojuris Law Offices and legal personalities - Ms. Pooja Dodd (Partner & Head of Department for Intellectual Property, FoxMandal Little), Mr. Rodney Ryder, Dr. (Prof.) Prabuddha Ganguli (Advisor, Vision-IPR). He also carried on research projects for the Central Government, the Government of Gujarat and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.Aditi Agarwala, is a final year student of law (batch of 2004-09), pursuing the five year B.Com. LL.B. (Rons.) integrated degree course from Gujarat National Law University at Gandhinagar, Gujarat. An extrovert by personality, she has acquired experience by interning under well-known corporate and law firms including Khaitan & Co., Rainmaker, Nanavati and Nanavati Advocates, S. Majumdar & Co., Indian Institute of Management -Bangalore. She has several publications, both on the corporate and the legal side on a vast number of subjects such as patent laws, weblogs, e-commerce, peer-to-peer file-sharing technologies and even social concerns.She has extensively participated and won laurels in a range of activities and competitions in India and abroad including debates, paper presentations, art, dramatics, workshops and conferences across the best B-schools and law schools such as Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Communications University of China, Beijing, University of Economics, Prague, I.I.T., Kanpur, University Law College, Bangalore, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Communication & Technology, Gandhinagar. She has also been awarded Best Speaker, Mock-Parliament conducted by the Government of Gujarat..........................................................................................................................ContentsTime Check – Welcome to the Knowledge EconomyPart IChapter 1. Intellectual Property – It Starts with an IdeaChapter 2. Intellectual Property Right – The Next Big ThingChapter 3. ‘Intellectual Property’ Debunking the MythsChapter 4. ‘Intellectual Property’ The Purest and The Most Concentrated Sense of the ‘Creation’Part IIChapter 1. Copyright – The Intellectual Property and the Public InterestChapter 2. Protohistory of CopyrightChapter 3. Divergent Traditions of Copyright – The Need for an International Copyright LawChapter 4. Copyright as a Legal RightChapter 5. Limitations on CopyrightPart III - Indian Copyright LegislationPart IV - From Gutenberg’s Press to the Digital Era – Campaigning A2K MovementCase 1 - Rights of Access on the Copyright HighwayChapter 1. Copyright Law under the Braille ScannerChapter 2. International Copyright LawChapter 3. Analysis of the Three step Test in the Light of Evolving WTO JurisprudenceChapter 4. International Developments on the Rights of the DisabledChapter 5. Panoply of Human RightsChapter 6. Charting Out the Contours of Disability Legislation in India – The PWD ActChapter 7. Assistive Technologies and E-LibrariesChapter 8. Municipal copyright LawChapter 9. Lessons from the World – Ignorance is PreventableChapter 10. A Ray of HopeCase II - Aramageddon on the Digital Superhighway: will Google’s E-Library Project Weather the Storm?Case III - Whodunit ! Assessing Copyright Liability in Cyburia: Positing Solutions to Curb the Menace of Copyrighted ‘File Sharingn’ Culture.........................................................................................................................
