A guide to the legal issues of developing, protecting, and distributing multimedia products, and the legal challenges posed by integrating content from different industries in digital form. Covers copyright, trademark and unfair competition, right of publicity, right of privacy, defamation, trade secrets, and patents. The accompanying disk includes sample agreements for defining legal relationships. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Thomas J. Smedinghoff, J.D., is a partner in the Chicago Law firm of McBride, Baker & Coles, where he co-chairs the firm's Information/Technology Law Department. He is the intellectual property counsel to the Software Publishers Association and vice-chair of the EDI and Information Technology Division of the Section on Science and Technology of the American Bar Association.
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