Free to download Intellectual Property Casebook.

Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain announced recently that the publication of Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society—Cases and Materials by James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins. This book, the first in a series of Duke Open Coursebooks. It is available for free download under a Creative Commons license.

This book is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks—from logos to novels to drug formulae—and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights.

It focuses on the three main forms of US federal intellectual property—trademark, copyright and patent. The book is intended to be a textbook for the basic Intellectual Property class, but because it is an open coursebook, which can be freely edited and customized, it is also suitable for an undergraduate class, or for a business, library studies, communications or other graduate school class.

You can download it here for free.

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