The IT : Digital Legal Companion

Front Cover -- The IT/Digital LegalCompanion -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgment by Gene Landy -- A Note from the Authors -- About the Authors -- About the Authors' Law Firm -- Form Downloading Instructions -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Using this Book to Build Value -- Your Need to Know Digital Business Law -- Who is this Book For? -- Organization of this Book -- Approach of this Book -- Understanding and Using Intellectual Property -- Doing Deals -- Understanding and Dealing with Legal Risk Factors -- Global Perspective -- Focusing on Your End Game from the Beginning -- How to Use this Book -- Using the Legal Forms -- Limits to the Contents of this Book -- Legal Counsel -- Chapter 2: Digital Copyright Basics -- Some History -- Copyright Counts! -- In this Chapter -- The Nature of a Copyright -- What Is Covered by US Copyright Law? -- What Is a Computer Program under Copyright Law? -- The (Very Modest) Requirement of Originality -- Copyright and Musical Works -- Exclusive Rights under Copyright Law -- Expressions vs. Ideas and Methods -- How to Get a Copyright -- Copyright vs. Other Kinds of Intellectual Property (IP) -- Duration of Copyright Protection -- Public Domain -- Notice -- Copyright Registration -- Infringement -- Derivative Works -- Works Made for Hire -- More on Work Made for Hire -- Work Made for Hire Clauses in Contracts -- Note on the Right to Revoke Copyright Grants and Transfer after 35 Years -- California Law Issue Involving Work Made for Hire Clauses -- Problems When Parties Fail to Specify Who Is to Own the Copyright -- Fair Use -- Factor-Based Analysis -- Fair Use and Personal Copying -- The First Sale Rule -- Thin Copyright Protection for Computer Databases -- Copy Protection Technology and Anticircumvention Law -- Digital Rights Management Technology and Anticircumvention.