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Item 3D Printing Law(2016) Hook, Sara AnneWhoever you represent in relation to 3D printing, you need to ensure that you're in-the-know regarding the latest rules and regulations. In this fast paced legal program, you'll maximize insight and gain cutting-edge pointers for advising your clients on this new area of law. Dig deep into the science, technology, rules and requirements regulating 3D printing today - AND identify key business, legal, and technical issues that will oversee this evolving landscape now, and in the near future. Review 3D printing laws and get the latest legislative updates, rules and regulations. Identify top liability traps, legal landmines and mistakes. Review intellectual property rights and issues. Analyze 3D printing taxation considerations.Item But I'm a Creator/Inventor/Coding, Not a Lawyer: What to Know about Intellectual Property Law, Contracts and More(2016-10-21) Hook, Sara Anne; Faklaris, CoriWhat you don’t know can hurt you. This mini-session will offer tips to minimize the chance of being taken advantage of in the workplace or when sharing or creating work with others. Topics include contracts, licensing and intellectual property law (patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and branding), along with special issues related to freelancing and hackathons. Learn how to use the law to protect yourself, your work and your reputation and avoid infringing on the rights of others. Because the law related to technology is changing so fast, even a more seasoned professional will find the session to be helpful. Participants will gain confidence in and knowledge of how to deal with situations involving legal issues. They will know what to look for when asked to sign a variety of documents covering their creative work. They will also be able to discern when to contact a lawyer and what kinds of credentials to look for when selecting a lawyer.Item Item Ending Book Hunger: Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture(Yale University Press, 2020) Shaver, LeaWorldwide, billions of people suffer from book hunger. For them, books are too few, too expensive, or do not even exist in their languages. This book argues that this is an educational crisis: the most reliable predictor of children's achievement is the size of their families' book collections. This book highlights innovative nonprofit solutions to expand access to print. First Book, for example, offers diverse books to teachers at bargain prices. Imagination Library mails picture books to support early literacy in book deserts. Worldreader promotes mobile reading in developing countries by turning phones into digital libraries. Pratham Books creates open access stories that anyone may freely copy, adapt, and translate. Can such efforts expand to bring books to the next billion would-be readers? The book reveals the powerful roles of copyright law and licensing, and sounds the clarion call for readers to contribute their own talents to the fight against book hunger.Item Intellectual Property: Nuts and Bolts(2017) Hook, Sara AnneDo you have a firm grasp of the legalities unique to manufacturing businesses? In this complete guide, experienced faculty will teach you how to guide your manufacturing clients through the industry's business aspects and navigate the maze of state and federal tax compliance, labor and employment obstacles, EH&S regulations and so much more! They will also cover intellectual property protection and an array of manufacturing contracts like distribution and supply agreements. This seminar will provide you with the fundamental knowledge you need to help manufacturers save money, time and reduce liability and headaches.Item Law, Technology and Civic Entrepreneurship(2017-03-10) Hook, Sara AnneMy research centers on the interrelationship between law and technology, both how the law is applied to new technology and the impact that technology has on the law and its practice. During the past year, I published and/or presented on such diverse topics as the extent to which copyright, patent, and trademark law protects websites, apps and GUIs, legal and ethical issues related to social media, and legal considerations for 3D printing. Through my national professional organization, I have advocated for modernization of the U.S. Copyright Office and for an alternative dispute process for small copyright infringement claims. The emerging area of law known as electronic discovery (e-discovery) has been a particular focus of mine for the last decade. E-discovery deals with how to handle digital evidence in all formats before and throughout litigation and sits perfectly at the intersection of law, technology and data science. My recent activities have included efforts to develop a robust and full-featured predictive coding system that will streamline the e-discovery process so that it is less time-consuming and costly and reduces the potential for errors. A passion of mine is microfinance/women’s empowerment, inspired by the work of Muhammad Yunus and my experiences teaching an entrepreneurship course here at SoIC every year since 2003. For six years, I was the leader of a successful microfinance/women’s empowerment project in Mexico and I am now completing a second year of being a project leader and “champion” for microfinance/women’s empowerment projects in Sierra Leone. As part of my efforts, I have been working with graduate students to redesign the website and social media/communications approach for the microfinance organization that oversees and administers these projects.Item Legal Considerations for Informatics(2014-07-22) Hook, Sara AnneItem Local Language Limitations: Copyright and the Commons(Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, 2014-08) Shaver, LeaCopyright’s system of financial incentives is working well to encourage publishing in some languages, such as English and French, but not in all languages. The law should recognize this reality, and adjust the rules of copyright protection accordingly, creating different regulatory structures for different languages. Smaller language markets will require different regulatory structures to unleash their publishing potential—particularly languages where most readers are very poor. This article suggests that this tailoring can be achieved through the use of “local language limitations” to copyright protection. According to this proposal, a national legislature identifies one or more specific local languages as underserved by the publishing industry. It then enacts a statutory limitation on copyright protection, which creates a bounded commons for material in those languages. By enabling permissionless translation, adaptation, and reproduction, local language limitations will drive down the cost of works in those languages to prices that are affordable to the very poor, while creating legal room for lower-cost translation and distribution models. This approach has four novel virtues. First, it takes advantage of language barriers to promote access for disadvantaged readers, without reducing the protection afforded to authors and publishers in more profitable markets. Second, it illustrates the potential of innovative, syncretic approaches to IP protection, beyond the “one size fits all” model. Third, it promotes reform of copyright law at the domestic level, rather than at the international level, where developing countries have power. Fourth, it enables “copyright experimentalism,” making it possible for researchers and policy makers to draw empirical lessons about the impact of copyright law on creativity based on real-world experience. The Article first introduces the problem of neglected languages of publishing and explains why there are good reasons to believe that loosening copyright rules will, in certain contexts, result in greater creativity as well as broader access. It then explains the proposal for local language limitations, exploring variations on the approach, identifying potential pitfalls, responding to objections, and recommending best practices. Finally, the article discusses the compatibility of local language limitations with international treaties on intellectual property and human rights.Item Protecting Content Online: The Interface of Copyright and Design for Websites, Apps, and GUIs(2016-05-18) Hook, Sara AnneIntellectual property law continues to be challenged by new technologies. Although patent law recently went through a substantial revision with the America Invents Act, a number of questions remain about how to apply existing copyright law to digital works in all kinds of formats, including text, databases, audio, video, websites, graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and applications (apps), to name but a few. Moreover, the intent of developers of these materials is to make them available on smaller devices, such as tablets, mobile phones and even wearables. Of course, one aspect of copyright law for this material focuses on how to protect the content itself, such as the text, images, video, audio and databases delivered through a website. One of the important considerations is that this is different than in a print world, with the content of websites not being static but rather dynamic. In fact, a company or non-profit organization that wants to remain high in the consciousness of its constituents and to appear at the top of the list of web searches will need to update its content on a regular basis, perhaps including a blog, which provides an advantage in search engine optimization. Because the content of a website may be continually changing, how do we protect it under traditional copyright law or are there other options that are more appropriate?