Bloomberg BNA Releases New 2012 Supplement to Copyright Law Deskbook

Bloomberg BNA has published the 2012 Cumulative Supplement to the Copyright Law Deskbook, providing interpretation and a thorough treatment of the relevant law with a particular emphasis on, and analyses of, recent copyright case law developments.

Copyright Law Deskbook aims to be useful rather than monumental, focusing on particular disputes and rendering details specific to legal questions decided by the courts so that practitioners can determine which cases are most likely to be germane to the questions they need answered.

With copyright law undergoing dramatic changes since the development of the internet as a commercial, artistic, and intellectual hub, the Deskbook is invaluable for its exploration of cases in which existing copyrighted content is being aggregated, adapted, and distributed in ways unforeseen by Congress when it passed the Copyright Act in 1976. The treatise offers the most up-to-date and significant aspects of the law, including fair use, work for hire, copyrightability, digital rights and the DMCA, international considerations, damages, formalities, preemption, and litigation issues.

Copyright Law Deskbook comes with an Annotated Case Digest on CD-ROM that covers every significant copyright law decision from 1993 to 2011. This Case Digest includes a compilation of Robert W. Clarida's annual case law summaries that have been published each year, beginning in 1993, in the Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. Now these case law summaries are integrated and electronically searchable by case name, docket number, jurisdiction, issue, and type of media.

The 2012 Cumulative Supplement expands the coverage of this treatise and discusses:

• New developments in personal jurisdiction for internet infringement in the wake of Penguin v. American Buddha
• The courts’ varying responses to the pre-suit registration requirement following the Supreme Court’s decision in Muchnick
• Whether Twitter’s terms of use are a copyright license
• Irreparable harm and injunctions after Salinger v. Colting
• New fact patterns supporting implied licenses
• Copying of photographs and infringement

The author of Copyright Law Deskbook, 2012 Cumulative Supplement is Robert W. Clarida, a partner at Reitler, Kailas & Rosenblatt, LLC in New York, N.Y., and a noted author and speaker on copyright. He is a past trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA and a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. This title is available for sale directly from Bloomberg BNA and is also available on the Bloomberg Law legal research system.

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