Intellectual Property Law Essentials

✍ Scribed by Duncan Spiers

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 176
• Series: Edinburgh Law Essentials
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How does law protect your ideas and privacy in Scotland and the UK?

The Scots common law of property is strongly realist in its concepts, and restricts itself to tangible objects – objects, land, things attached to the land. But what about non-physical property, such as your intellectual property and your private personal information? These types of property are of increasing importance in this technological age. From copyright to patents, from data protection to freedom of information, and from e-commerce to cybercrime, Intellectual Property Law Essentials explains how UK statue law protects and regulates your information and ideas.

End-of-chapter summaries of essential facts highlight the key things you should have learned, and summaries of essential cases show how the law is enforced in practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
1 Introduction
2 Copyright – Part I: What is Protected
3 Copyright – Part II: Other Issues
4 Designs
5 Patents
6 Trade Marks
7 Passing Off
8 Confidential Information
9 Data Protection
10 Freedom of Information
11 E-commerce
12 Cybercrime
Index