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Introduction to the 2018 Annual Clancy Ratliff, University of Louisiana at Lafayette'Blockbuster Sermons' and Authorship Issues in Evangelicalism TJ Geiger, Baylor UniversityPlagiarizing a Pushcart Prize Lanette Cadle, Missouri State UniversitySue for Mario Bros.: Nintendo vs Emulation Kyle D. Stedman, Rockford UniversityCockygate: Trademark Trolling, Romance Novels, and Intellectual Property Devon Fitzgerald Ralston, Winthrop UniversityA (Zombie) Legislative Proposal with Implications for Fair Use and Remix Culture Kim Gainer, Radford University

A handy introduction to copyright, patents, trade marks and other key elements of IP. From small businesses filing patents to designers protecting their copyright, from a gas station seeing its logo ripped off by a competitor to a blogger posting photographs, New Zealanders encounter intellectual property every day. Sometimes they need to call a lawyer. But at other times, they just need to get a clear understanding of what they can and can't do in order to go about their business. This handy little book, written by one of the country's leading intellectual property lawyers and author of the

The papers in this volume represent some of the leading work on intellectual property. They address the question of how to create incentives to develop new technologies and how to protect those technologies once developed from theft. They also ask when valuable property might be developed even under weak ownership conditions. Other papers address how firms balance the trade offs in considering costly patent litigation and they examine the antitrust implications. Although issues of intellectual property rights would seem to be ones of interest only to obscure groups of academics and lawyers, they have become topics of everyday discussion among the regular population.Alleged copyright infringements by people downloading music from the internet and accompanying threats of prosecution as well as charges of strategic patenting to harm competitors in recent high profile antitrust cases have placed intellectual property into public and political debate. The incentives provided by secure property rights for promoting research and development, investment, production, and exchange are well known. These are the major arguments for patents, copyrights and other forms of intellectual property

Considers whether the traditional rights accorded tangible property apply also to intellectual property, asserting that philosophical, legal, economic, & political bases for protecting these kinds of property differ significantly enough that equating the two forms of property is problematic. References. Adapted from the source document.

"Modern Intellectual Property Law" combines coverage of each intellectual property right granted for creations of the mind into a thoughtful, unified textbook. Deconstructing the fundamental topics into short, clear sections separated by subheadings throughout, Colston and Galloway's text is the ideal student companion to this intriguing area of the law.

Long before the onset of the now-emblematic quarrel between England and Greece over the Parthenon marbles, nations and tribes have squabbled over the extraterritorial transfer of objects of purported cultural significance. Over the past few decades, however, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of cultural property repatriation claims, mostly targeting U.S. collections. The value of cultural artifacts is generated largely by the intellectual expression they manifest. Digital technologies make increasingly possible the creation of reproductions of even three-dimensional artifacts, which are indistinguishable from the originals. This development challenges our attributing value to the "aura" of the original renderings of tangible cultural artifacts. Stripped of their auras, the worth of these objects devolves to the sum of the value of the physical materials deployed in their creation, and that ascribed to the perceptible intellectual expression they contain. If we were to perceive cultural artifacts fundamentally as works of information rather than of tangible property, the location of the original instantiations of them would be of little significance. Three-dimensional technologies might soon permit source nations to retain the essential intellectual value of cultural artifacts found within their borders, while simultaneously capitalizing upon sales of the originals to collectors who will pay for their "aura."

Preface -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- 1 IP Debt Finance and SMEs: Revealing the Evolving Conceptual Framework Drawing on Initiatives from Around the World -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 IP Finance and SMEs: Debt Versus Equity -- 1.2 Equity Finance -- 1.3 IP-Backed Debt Finance and Information Asymmetry -- 2 International Economic Research to Underpin IP Finance Policy Developments -- 2.1 Office for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Research -- 2.2 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and United Nations Commission on International Trade (UNCITRAL) Initiatives -- 3 IP Finance Developments in the UK and Europe -- 3.1 The United Kingdom (UK) -- 3.2 The European Union (EU) -- 4 The United States Patent Quality Initiative (PQI) -- 5 Government IP-Backed Debt Finance Initiatives in Asia to Stimulate Economic Growth and Address the Young SME Funding Gap -- 5.1 Singapore's 'IP Financing Scheme' -- 5.2 The People's Republic of China (PRC) IP Pledge Financing Program -- 5.3 Malaysia Debt Ventures Bhd (MDV) IP Financing Scheme (IPFS) -- 5.4 Hong Kong -- 5.5 Japan -- 6 Analysis of the Global Initiatives -- 6.1 Systemic Change and a Conceptual Framework for IP Finance -- 6.2 Lenders and IP-Backed Finance Policy -- 7 Conclusions and Outlook: Supporting the Agile Development of Globally Enhanced Access to IP Finance -- References -- 2 Intellectual Properties and Debt Finance for Startups -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Japan's Attempts to Introduce IP-Backed Lending and the Aftermath -- 3 The Questionnaire Survey -- 3.1 Method -- 3.2 Result of the Survey for Startups -- 3.3 Results of the Survey for Fund Providers -- 4 Discussion -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 3 IP and Debt Finance: Cross-Border Considerations -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Proposals and Debates at Milestone UNCITRAL Meetings