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Legal Issues Facing Companies with Products in a Digital Format

Legal Issues Facing Companies with Products in a Digital Format

J. Royce Fichtner, Lou Ann Simpson
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781616928773|ISBN10: 1616928778|EISBN13: 9781616928797
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-877-3.ch003
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Fichtner, J. Royce, and Lou Ann Simpson. "Legal Issues Facing Companies with Products in a Digital Format." Digital Product Management, Technology and Practice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Troy J. Strader, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 32-52. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-877-3.ch003

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Fichtner, J. R. & Simpson, L. A. (2011). Legal Issues Facing Companies with Products in a Digital Format. In T. Strader (Ed.), Digital Product Management, Technology and Practice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 32-52). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-877-3.ch003

Chicago

Fichtner, J. Royce, and Lou Ann Simpson. "Legal Issues Facing Companies with Products in a Digital Format." In Digital Product Management, Technology and Practice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Troy J. Strader, 32-52. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-877-3.ch003

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Abstract

Companies that deal in products in a digital format, such as magazines, newspapers, e-books, music, movies, games, or software, face unique legal challenges because they attempt to earn a profit by selling or licensing material that is easily copied and inexpensive to reproduce. This chapter discusses the four general categories of intellectual property law—patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and copyrights—and describes how each applies to products in a digital format. This chapter ends with a brief discussion of the changing societal norms toward copyright infringement for digital products and possible directions for future research.

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