Group Discussion or Content Rights for Creative Professionals

Group Discussion: A Practical Guide to Participation and Leadership

Author: Kathryn Sue Young

This highly respected and widely cited text takes an applied, problem-solving approach that recognizes the creative potential of the individual. It serves as a handbook on a variety of small-group communication activities, including conducting meetings (using the standard agenda) and handling conflict.

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Content Rights for Creative Professionals: Copyrights & Trademarks in a Digital Age

Author: Arnold Lutzker

Content Rights for Creative Professionals is for professionals and students working in all areas of media (film/video, photography, multimedia, web, graphics, and broadcast) who need to know what the law requires and how they should properly utilize copyrights and trademarks. This book outlines critical concepts and applies them with explanations in real-life applications, including many cases from the author's own practice as well as those of various media professionals.

This 256 page text is a practical guide designed to provide its reader with a firm understanding of the principles underlying the ownership and use of content, so that when questions arise, they will be able to make correct, well-informed decisions—whether concerning their personal works, or works of others that a company wishes to copyright or trademark. In addition, the reader will be more capable of exercising sound judgment in structuring employment and contract relationships and of acquiring and/or licensing works, which are at the core of the business of communicating.

*Access to the most up-to-date copyright and trademark information
*Provides a firm understanding of the priciniples underlying the ownership and use of content
*Suits the perspective of the freelance artist as well as the in-house media professional

Table of Contents:

	Preface to Second Edition
	Preface to First Edition
	About the Author
Pt. 1	Copyright	1
1	Overview of Copyright: The Big Picture	3
2	What Is Copyright?	9
3	The Copyright Rights: The Coin of Copyright	21
4	Limitations on Copyrights: The Chili Pepper of Copyright	29
5	Compulsory Licensing: Government's Helping Hand	43
6	Penalties for Infringement: Paying the Price	53
7	Ownership of Copyright: Keeping What Is Yours	57
8	Online Service Providers: Gateway or Traffic Cop?	65
9	Right to Control Access: The Trump Card	73
Pt. 2	Trademarks	81
10	What Is a Trademark?	83
11	The Trademark Systems: How to Protect Your Mark	97
12	Strategy for Acquiring Trademark Rights: A "How-to" for Branding	107
13	Likelihood of Confusion: The Acid Test	113
14	Trademarks and Licensing: Follow the Money Trail	119
15	Trademarks in a Digital World: Domain Name Games and Other Fun	127
Pt. 3	Collateral Concerns: Things You Cannot Ignore	137
16	Unfair Competition, Publicity, and Privacy: Filling in the Holes	139
17	Antitrust Laws: Keeping Competition Alive	145
18	Patents and Trade Secrets: Powerful Partners	151
19	The International View: It's a Small World After All	157
Pt. 4	Content Rights: The Media and Film	163
20	News and Talk Programming: Competition for Content	165
21	Content Rights: The Realm of Music	175
22	Advertising: Being Content with Commercial Content	185
23	Sports Content: The Olympic Law of the Rings and Other Games	191
24	Call Signs, Slogans, Jingles, and Characters: The Bits and Pieces of Broadcasting	197
25	Colorization and Artists' Rights: Whose Work Is It?	203
26	Licensing and Distributing: The Business of Programming	209
27	Cable TV: A Pipe Dream	221
28	Media Consolidation: Content Synergy	227
Pt. 5	Content and New Media: The Internet Has Arrived	233
29	Cyberspace: Napster and the Code of the Wild West Revisited	235
30	Digital Doctrines: Defining Rights in an Electronic World	241
31	Teachers and a Digital World: How the Classroom Has Changed	251
32	Webcasting: A Primer for Digital Communication	261
33	Afterword: A Closing Thought	269
	App.: Useful Websites	271
	Glossary	273
	Index	291

Explicit Cost Dynamics or Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press

Explicit Cost Dynamics: An Alternative to Activity-Based Costing

Author: Reginald Tomas Yu Le

GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE BOTTOM LINE

Traditional cost management systems typically defeat their own purpose by leading corporations to make decisions that ultimately do not optimize performance. These systems are the foundation for decisions that are made throughout the corporation. In order for organizations to increase performance beyond current capabilities, a new approach is needed that addresses issues such as understanding the true impact of various actions on the bottom line-and eliminating methods that distort numbers and narrow options. Explicit Cost Dynamics (ECD) offers such an alternative, and this expertly written, revolutionary book provides an indispensable introduction to the subject.

Informative and easy-to-read, Explicit Cost Dynamics:

• Provides an alternative view and understanding of the impact of costs, actions, and time on the bottom line of a corporation

• Explains how this new theory can lead to an overall profit maximization

• Shows that costs can be considered as either a function of activities performed, as a function of resources expended, or of time

• Shows that the difference between explicit dollars flowing into and out of a company is equal to the rate of change of cash

• . . . and much more to help CEOs, CFOs, controllers, cost managers, financial managers, and others involved in the decision-making process improve their organizations' overall bottom lines.

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Introduces the development and implementation of explicit cost dynamics (ECD), a nonallocation-based cost management system that offers an alternative to traditional cost accounting methods as well as activity-based costing. Contains chapters on limitation accounting, basic ECD measures, operational inconsistencies, resource and program management, practical use, and implementing ECD. Of interest to CEOs, CFOs, controllers, cost managers, and financial managers. Yu-Lee is a consultant in strategy, supply chain, information systems, and manufacturing operations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Limitations of Cost Accounting	1
Ch. 2	What is Explicit Cost Dynamics?	23
Ch. 3	Understanding Explicit Cost Dynamics Costs	45
Ch. 4	Profit Dynamics	69
Ch. 5	Basic Explicit Cost Dynamics Measures	91
Ch. 6	Degree of Freedom Management	107
Ch. 7	Operational Inconsistencies	123
Ch. 8	Resource and Program Management	143
Ch. 9	Practical Use	169
Ch. 10	Implementing Explicit Cost Dynamics	191
	Index	215

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Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press

Author: Graham Law

Drawing on extensive archival research in both Britain and the United States, Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press represents the first comprehensive study of the publication of installment fiction in Victorian newspapers. Often overlooked, this phenomenon is shown to have exerted a crucial influence on the development of the fiction market in the last decades of the 19th century. A detailed description of the practice of syndication is followed by a wide-ranging discussion of its implications for readership, authorship, and fictional form.

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Law (English studies, Waseda U., Tokyo) shows how serial publication in syndicates of weekly news miscellanies throughout the British Empire was important in cultural and economic terms. A descriptive history of the rise and decline of the practice of syndication is followed by chapters that discuss its implications for readership, authorship, and the fictional form. Coverage includes well-known novelists, such as Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens as well as "newspaper novelists" such as David Pae and Mary Elizabeth Braddon who published mostly through the weeklies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)