A Critique Of The Ontology Of Intellectual Property Law

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This book provides a comprehensive critique of the idea that 'intellectual property' exists as an object that can be owned.

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Genre : Law
Author : Alexander Peukert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2021-05-20
File : 219 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781108498326


Taxation

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This is the first book to give a collective treatment of philosophical issues relating to tax. The tax system is central to the operation of states and to the ways in which states interact with individual citizens. Taxes are used by states to fund the provision of public goods and public services, to engage in direct or indirect forms of redistribution, and to mould the behaviour of individual citizens. As the contributors to this volume show, there are a number of pressing and thorny philosophical issues relating to the tax system, and these issues often connect in fascinating ways with foundational questions regarding property rights, public justification, democracy, state neutrality, stability, political psychology, and other moral and political issues. Many of these deep and fascinating philosophical questions about tax have not received as much sustained attention as they clearly merit. The aim of advancing the debate about tax in political philosophy has both general and more specific aspects, ranging across both over-arching issues regarding the tax system as a whole and more specific issues relating to particular forms of tax policy. Thinking clearly about tax is not an easy task, as much that is of central importance is missed if one proceeds at too great a level of abstraction, and issues of conceptual and normative importance often only come sharply into focus when viewed against real-world questions of implementation and feasibility. Serious philosophical work on the tax system will often therefore need to be interdisciplinary, and so the discussion in this book includes a number of scholars whose expertise spans across neighbouring disciplines to philosophy, including political science, economics, public policy, and law.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Martin O'Neill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2018-07-12
File : 279 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780192557612


Approaches To Legal Ontologies

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The book provides the reader with a unique source regarding the current theoretical landscape in legal ontology engineering as well as on foreseeable future trends for the definition of conceptual structures to enhance the automatic processing and retrieval of legal information in the Semantic Web framework. It will thus interest researchers in the domains of the SW, legal informatics, Artificial Intelligence and law, legal theory and legal philosophy, as well as developers of e-government applications based on the intelligent management of legal or public information to provide both back-office and front-office support.

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Genre : Law
Author : Giovanni Sartor
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2010-12-25
File : 284 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789400701205


Intents And Purposes

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How do we define improvised music? What is the relationship of highly improvised performances to the work they are performances of? How do we decide what are the important parts of an improvised musical work? In Intents and Purposes, Eric Lewis uses a series of case studies to challenge assumptions about what defines a musical work and musical performance, seeking to go beyond philosophical and aesthetic templates from Western classical music to foreground the distinctive practices and aesthetics of jazz. Pushing aside the assumption that composition and improvisation are different (or even opposed) musical practices, Lewis’s philosophically informed approach revisits key topics in musical ontology, such as how to define the triangle of composer-performer-listener, and the status of live performances in relation to scores and recordings. Drawing on critical race theory, feminist theory, new musicology, sociology, cognitive science, and genre theory, Lewis opens up new questions about agency in performance, as well as new ways of considering the historical relationships between improvisational practices with roots in different cultural frameworks. By showing how jazz can be both art, idea, and action all at the same time, Lewis offers a new way of seeing any improvised musical performance in a new culturally and aesthetically rich context.

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Genre : Music
Author : Eric Lewis
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Release : 2019-03-29
File : 281 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780472131303


Paradigm Shift In Technological Advancement In Librarianship

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A companion volume entitled 'Benchmarks in ICT Applications in LIS Practices: Essays in Honour of Dr Pawan Kumar Gupta, is being brought out separately on this occasion. The book, in addition to the discussions on the principles, offers an insight into the practical aspects of implementation and management. It also incorporates some case studies. Important topics covered in this book are: Open ArchivesWebometricsWeb 2.0 and LibrariesSocial NetworkingOpen Sources Software ToolsRural Development Information SystemMulti-Lingual Digital LibrariesOpen Content (Knowledge) & LicensingCollaboration and ConsortiaData Standards for e-ResourcesDigital Library E-ResourcesLibrary ConsortiaAcademic LibrariesIndia Library ConsortiaElectronic Information ResourcesICT LiteracyUniversity LibrariesCopyright IssuesKnowledge Centres for RuralDevelopment

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Genre : Reference
Author : N.K. Swain
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
Release : 2011-08-01
File : 531 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789387307902


Legal Knowledge And Information Systems

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Currently, several artificial intelligence technologies are growing increasingly mature, including computational modeling of reasoning, natural language processing, information retrieval, information extraction, machine learning, electronic agents, and reasoning with uncertainty. Their integration in and adaptation to legal knowledge and information systems needs to be studied. Parallel to this development, e-government applications are gradually gaining ground among local, national, European and international institutions. More than 25 years of research in the field of legal knowledge and information systems has resulted in many models for legal knowledge representation and reasoning. However, authors and reviewers rightly remarked that there are still some essential questions to be solved. First, there is a need for the integration and harmonization of the models. Secondly, there is the difficult problem of knowledge acquisition in a domain that is in constant evolution. If one wants to realize a fruitful marriage between artificial intelligence and e-government, the aid of technologies that automatically extract knowledge from natural language and from other forms of human communication and perception is needed.

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Genre : Computers
Author : M.-F. Moens
Publisher : IOS Press
Release : 2005-11-29
File : 172 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781607501527


Legal Ontology Engineering

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Enabling information interoperability, fostering legal knowledge usability and reuse, enhancing legal information search, in short, formalizing the complexity of legal knowledge to enhance legal knowledge management are challenging tasks, for which different solutions and lines of research have been proposed. During the last decade, research and applications based on the use of legal ontologies as a technique to represent legal knowledge has raised a very interesting debate about their capacity and limitations to represent conceptual structures in the legal domain. Making conceptual legal knowledge explicit would support the development of a web of legal knowledge, improve communication, create trust and enable and support open data, e-government and e-democracy activities. Moreover, this explicit knowledge is also relevant to the formalization of software agents and the shaping of virtual institutions and multi-agent systems or environments. This book explores the use of ontologism in legal knowledge representation for semantically-enhanced legal knowledge systems or web-based applications. In it, current methodologies, tools and languages used for ontology development are revised, and the book includes an exhaustive revision of existing ontologies in the legal domain. The development of the Ontology of Professional Judicial Knowledge (OPJK) is presented as a case study.

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Genre : Law
Author : Núria Casellas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2011-08-12
File : 315 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789400714977


Ip Accidents

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Introduces the concept of 'IP accidents' to establish a new way to look at intellectual property law and its enforcement.

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Genre : Law
Author : Patrick R. Goold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2022-03-17
File : 153 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781108841481


Information Communication Technology Law Protection And Access Rights Global Approaches And Issues

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"This book identifies key issues in the relationship between ICT and law, ethics, politics and social policy, drawing attention to diverse global approaches to the challenges posed by ICT to access rights"--Provided by publisher.

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Genre : Computers
Author : Portela, Irene Maria
Publisher : IGI Global
Release : 2010-06-30
File : 592 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781615209767


Intellectual Property Rights Copynorm And The Fashion Industry

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This book traces the development of the fashion industry, providing insight into the business and, in particular, its interrelations with copyright law. The book explores how the greatest haute couture fashion designers also had a sense for business and that their attention to copyright was one of the weapons in protecting their market position. The work also confronts the peculiarities of the fashion industry as a means of demonstrating the importance of intellectual property protection while pointing out the many challenges involved. A central aim is to provide a copyrightability test for fashion goods based on detailed analysis of the legal regulations in the USA and EU countries, specifically Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Poland. The book will be of interest to researchers and academics working in the areas of Intellectual Property Law, Copyright Law, Business Law, Fashion Law and Design.

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Genre : Law
Author : Marlena Jankowska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 2023-12-22
File : 229 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781003833468