Copyright (Examples & Explanations)

Using proven Examples & Explanations pedagogy, this comprehensive study guide provides students with a short account of the law, followed by a variety of concrete examples and explanations that reinforce and give substance to key rules and concepts in copyright law.

New to the Fifth Edition:

• Supreme Court decisions: Varsity Brands on functionality and cheerleader uniforms, Kirtsaeng on awarding attorney’s fees even if litigant was reasonable
• Works from 1923 passing into public domain, as copyright term finally has meaning in 2019
• “Happy Birthday to You” and “We Shall Overcome” freed from copyright claims
• Cases on free software and Creative Commons licenses
• Developments in secondary liability and Web site immunity, such as YouTube and Comcast
• Fair use cases in art, music, books, software, legal briefs, big data, Google Books, online postings, and movies
• Oracle v. Google changing software copyright law
• Authorship issues involving actors, macaques, and artificial intelligence

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Up-to-date coverage of recent developments
• Practical and broad coverage of music, books, art, software, movies, data and other areas
• Realistic examples and explanations making the rules of copyright concrete and clear
• A building block approach to provide an overall understanding of copyright