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Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright

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Author: Lucas Hilderbrand

In an age of digital technology and renewed anxiety about media piracy, Inherent Vice revisits the recent analog past with an eye-opening exploration of the aesthetic and legal innovations of home video. Analog videotape was introduced to consumers as a blank format, essentially as a bootleg technology, for recording television without permission. The studios initially resisted VCRs and began legal action to oppose their marketing. In turn, U.S. courts controversially reinterpreted copyright law to protect users’ right to record, while content owners eventually developed ways to exploit the video market. Lucas Hilderbrand shows how videotape and fair use offer essential lessons relevant to contemporary progressive media policy.

Videotape not only radically changed how audiences accessed the content they wanted and loved but also altered how they watched it. Hilderbrand develops an aesthetic theory of analog video, an “aesthetics of access” most boldly embodied by bootleg videos. He contends that the medium specificity of videotape becomes most apparent through repeated duplication, wear, and technical failure; video’s visible and audible degeneration signals its uses for legal transgressions and illicit pleasures. Bringing formal and cultural analysis into dialogue with industrial history and case law, Hilderbrand examines four decades of often overlooked histories of video recording, including the first network news archive, the underground circulation of Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, a feminist tape-sharing network, and the phenomenally popular website YouTube. This book reveals the creative uses of videotape that have made essential content more accessible and expanded our understanding of copyright law. It is a politically provocative, unabashedly nostalgic ode to analog.

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Patent It Yourself: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Filing at the U.S. Patent Office

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Author: David Pressman

Patent your creation with the world's bestselling guide to patents!

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Attorney David Pressman takes you through the entire patent process, providing scrupulously updated information and clear instructions to help you:

determine if you can patent your invention

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Thoroughly updated to reflect the latest changes in intellectual property law, the 14th edition also provides the latest U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rules and forms. It includes up-to-date details on how to file a patent electronically with the USPTO, the latest rules for application and prosecution, and other changes to technical filing rules.

Whether you're new at the inventing game or a grizzled veteran, Patent It Yourself will save you grief, time and money.

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Migration, Globalization and Ethnic Relations: An Interdisciplinary Approach

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Author: Mohsen Mobasher

This collection of classical and contemporary essays by leading migration scholars represents new developments in immigration studies. It exposes readers to different theoretical approaches on adaptation and incorporation of immigrants from the classic assimilation theory to the most recent ethnic economy and ethnic enclave theories. This book familiarizes readers with the most current and important migration issues and challenges of immigrants, including the causes of migration, globalization and its impact on migration, migration and transnationalism, immigrant women and family, return migration, and the current status of migration research. For sociologists, anthropologists, urban researchers, and others in the field of immigration and immigrant status.

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Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics

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Author: Jonathan Xavier Inda

This book is concerned with the government of “illegal” immigration since the passage of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965, exploring how certain mentalities and intellectual machineries have rendered illegal immigrants as targets of government.

Examines how various authorities have created knowledge about and constructed “illegal” immigration as an ethical problem.
Analyzes the tactics that have been deployed to govern immigration, particularly at the US-Mexico border.
Using an ethnographic approach, draws on primary source materials – including government publications, archival documents, newspapers, and popular magazines.
Studies measures (e.g. Operation Gatekeeper and Operation Hold-the-Line) for reforming the conduct of “illegal” immigrants in order to forestall illicit border crossings.
Frames the study of immigration within Foucauldian theories of governmentality.
Highlights the role of numbers and statistics in constructing the “illegal” immigrant.

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Basic Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals

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Author: David L. Buchbinder

* LOISLAW Packaged with 4 months free access to Loislaw's online legal research database. * BEST CASE® BANKRUPTCY Instructor materials come with sample exercises for use with Best Case® Bankruptcy Software * COMPANION WEBSITE <a href="http://www.aspenparalegaled.com/bankruptcy_abridged" target="_blank"> www.aspenparalegaled.com/bankruptcy_abridged </a> (<a href="http://lawschool.aspenpublishers.com/paralegal_educators/sales_reps.asp"> Contact your Aspen Representative</a> for more information about these resources.) This abridged edition of David L. Buchbinder’s highly successful bankruptcy text for paralegal students focuses on consumer bankruptcy. Representing primarily the debtor’s point of view, this concise text offers an overview of the bankruptcy code and rules in a readable, step-by-step presentation. The abridged edition of Basic Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals <ul> <li> focuses on what paralegals need to know in a clear and readable style. The text is designed to let students learn and digest the basics of consumer bankruptcy without having to learn an entirely new vocabulary. </li> <li> provides an overview of the bankruptcy code and rules, with step-by-step guidance through the paralegal's role at every stage of the bankruptcy proceeding </li> <li> offers practical orientation covering not only the law but also how to complete documents and understand the timing involved </li> <li> includes a chapter on means testing along with a supporting tutorial </li> <li> features a forms manual on disk that supplements the book and includes links to source data required to comply with means testing. </li> <li> offers excellent teaching and learning aids: abundant examples, checklists of procedures, summaries of the law, discussion questions, and practical exercises, all focused on consumer bankruptcy </li> <li> includes an instructor's manual with test bank </li> </ul> If you are looking for a concise, focused, and up-to-date text with which to teach consumer bankruptcy, the abridged edition of Basic Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals is exactly the teaching tool you need.

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Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means To Be American

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Author: Tamar Jacoby

In Reinventing the Melting Pot, twenty-one of the writers who have thought longest and hardest about immigration come together around a surprising consensus: yes, immigrant absorption still works-and given the number of newcomers arriving today, the nation's future depends on it. But it need not be incompatible with ethnic identity-and we as a nation need to find new ways to talk about and encourage becoming American. In the wake of 9/11 it couldn't be more important to help these newcomers find a way to fit in. Running through these essays is a single common theme: Although ethnicity plays a more important role now than ever before, today's newcomers can and will become Americans and enrich our national life-reinventing the melting pot and reminding us all what we have in common.

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Legal First Aid: A Guide for Health Care Professionals

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Author: Anthony L. DeWitt

Get the answers you need to questions such as: What can I discuss under HIPAA with the patient s family? What must I get permission to speak about from the patient? Who can make end-of-life decisions if there is no next-of-kin? When do I need to get a legal opinion? What do I say to a Board Investigator? Legal First Aid: A Guide for Health Care Professionals is a definitive quick reference for the clinician, providing the answers to legal question that relate to patient care. A concise and easy to understand text, this book provides solid advice on important legal issues, and includes a resources section with information for further reading and reference. This text assists clinicians performing legal triage by informing the provider when to call an attorney and seek professional help.

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The Fall of David Hall

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Author: James Edwin Alexander

Attorney William R. Burkett recounts the investigation and trial of former Oklahoma governor David Hall. The trial marked the first time an Oklahoma governor was convicted of criminal acts committed while in office. Burkett was the U.S. Attorney who prosecuted the popular governor. He found himself in the center of a political maelstrom. He was accused of conspiracy, disbarred by a federal judge, denounced in the Legislature, and threatened with a Congressional investigation.

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Twisted Justice

Tort Law Bundle: Modern Tort Law

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Author: V.H. Harpwood

Modern Tort Law is a comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date introduction to the law of torts. Now in its seventh edition, Vivienne Harpwood’s popular, student-friendly text explains the principles of all aspects of tort law in a lively and thought-provoking manner. The broad coverage of modern tort law makes this an ideal textbook for any undergraduate tort law course.

Students are encouraged to understand and apply the principles of tort law effectively throughout and particular attention is paid to the context within which the law is evolving, making these topics both accessible and enjoyable.

This seventh edition has been revised and updated to take into account developments since publication of the previous edition including in the areas of privacy, negligence, personal injury and defamation. Human Rights issues are integrated throughout the text rather than treating the topic in isolation, in line with the way the subject is commonly taught.

Now more accessible and student-friendly, it includes:

advice on further reading at the end of each chapter which is intended to point students towards sources of further study and critical debate
new chapter introductions, rewritten to reflect learning outcomes.

Modern Tort Law is now supported by a Companion Website which offers lecturer resources available to adopters of the book, including ‘think points’ designed to encourage reflection and debate and PowerPoints of diagrams and flowcharts contained within the text. A dedicated student section also offers weblinks, a guide to key Tort law cases, a flashcard glossary and a test bank of multiple choice questions.

Tort Law for Paralegals, 2E

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Author: Bevans

Second Edition / Aspen Publishers. Clean pages / binding tight / edge & corner wear / slight bend in cover

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