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Copyright Law: Protection of Original Expression, Fourth Edition

by Ryan Vacca, Sheldon W. Halpern

2021, 1316 pp, casebound, ISBN 978-1-5310-0771-3

$160.00

Teacher's Manual available

Copyright Law

Protection of Original Expression

Third Edition

by Sheldon W. Halpern

Tags: Copyright Law

Table of Contents (PDF)

Teacher's Manual available

970 pp  $85.00

ISBN 978-1-61163-465-5
eISBN 978-1-61163-968-1

This casebook is tightly and coherently structured, intelligently distilled, and clearly contextualized. It explores the complex issues surrounding protection of intellectual creativity under U.S. copyright law while ensuring that both student and professor always maintain an understanding of how doctrinal elements relate to the whole. The book is perfect for those students who have struggled with dense notes and opaque explanations, professors who have labored through cumbersome or poorly ordered texts, or for new teachers who need a clear pedagogic template complete with both substantive doctrine and highly instructive cases. The third edition expands upon the first two and brings the material up to date while retaining its eminently teachable structure.