Copyright Law: A Practitioner's Guide, 0913 COBJ, Pg. 60
| Author | Susan Thevenet |
Susan Thevenet
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Copyright Law: A Practitioner’s Guide
by Bruce P. Keller and Jeffrey P. Cunard
697 pp.; $295
Practicing Law Institute, 2012
810 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10019
(800) 260-4754; www.pli.edu/pubs
Reviewed by Susan Thevenet
Susan Thevenet is legal counsel for EQT Corporation, a public company engaged in oil and gas exploration, production, and distribution. She focuses on oil and gas procurement and intellectual property—sthevenet@eqt. com.
Ubiquitous use of the Internet and online services for communication and transactions, along with the introduction of new forms of media, have resulted in a tremendous increase in copyright issues and related concerns about copyright protection and infringement. Practicing Law Institute's Copyright Law: A Practitioner's Guide (Guide) is the go-to book for copyright law specialists, as well as general practitioners and in-house counsel whose practice includes dealing with copyright matters on a regular basis.
Keller and Cunard are well-known legal experts in the copyright world who have litigated major copyright cases and lectured and written on numerous intellectual property issues. Their stated purpose of this book was not to duplicate the multivolume tomes of David Nimmer and Paul Goldstein, but to use what each has learned through his own litigation and legal practice experience to focus on the common concepts and issues most likely to be encountered by general and in-house practitioners. For the copyright neophyte, the authors provide an excellent introduction to copyright law and its evolution through the digital age, along with practical case...
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