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The principles Govering Remedies for Breach of Contract According to Expectation Interest In The Modern European law and Iranian law

Freedom of choosing an efficient remedy after the breach of contract, Cumulation of homogeneous remedies and the right to change the selected remedy in modern European contract law have been accepted via the approach of support of the injured party`s expectation interest‌‌‌. The consideration of these principles indicates that the remedies for breach of contract are not concerned in itself and ...

Revision of the Copyright Law

something they would otherwise be free to do, the right to prohibit thenm from copying and distributing material which has been published. A patent constitutes a truer analogy. In common law, if an invention can be used and still kept secret by the Those who introduced the medical research bill had to make a hard decision not to accept a compromiiise ot the original specifications, including an...

Copyright and Creativity: Authors and Photographers

The history of the occupations “author” and “photographer” provides an insightful perspective on copyright and creativity. The concept of the romantic author, associated with personal creative genius, gained prominence in the eighteenth century. However, in the U.S. in 1900 only about three thousand persons professed their occupation to be “author.” Self-professed “photographers” were then abou...

Should Not Be Protected by Copyright Law

Until Lotus and Apple sued their competitors for copyright infringement, software user interface designers did not think much about whether intellectual property law might impose some constraints on their design decisions. Even those who knew that copyrights were available to protect software probably understood this to mean simply that a person would have to write his or her own code to develo...

Copyright Law and Organizing the Internet