On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 13:38 +0100, Michael Kallas wrote:
Alex Hudson schrieb:
On what basis do you suspect the Rosen book is bad, btw?
(Aside from the coverage of 'controversies', eg. SCO, I was of the impression it was basically a factual hand-in-hand walk through basic IP law?)
As there is nothing common in patents, copyright and trademark laws and as they have very different histories, putting them together into one pot called "Intellectual Property" is very bad.
Referring to them collectively is not bad; making statements about them collectively is - it's completely different. If you go into any law bookshop, you'll find virtually every introductory textbook on those laws groups them together.
Suspecting a book is bad simply because it contains a "bad word" in the title is about the clearest form of judging a book by its cover that I can think of.
Cheers,
Alex.