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Intellectual Property: Law and the Information Society

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Intellectual Property: Law and the Information Society
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Publisher: Center for the Study of the Public Domain
ISBN/ASIN: 1500855804
Number of pages: 788

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This open coursebook is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks -- from logos to novels to drug formulae -- and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights.

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