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A Legal Dictionary for Museum Professionals
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Artikel-Nr:
9781442263437
Veröffentl:
2016
Seiten:
310
Autor:
Heather Hope Kuruvilla
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Presented in an easily-digestible format, this go-to desktop reference guide provides explanations and clarifications on a variety of issues and concerns facing today’s museum professional, including intellectual property issues, including copyright, trademark, service marks, and fair use; corporate issues, including non-profit status and tax exempt status; and governance issues, including trustees and fiduciary duties Written by a museum director who holds a law degree and has practiced law, A Legal Dictionary for Museum Professionals is intended to be kept within arm’s reach at a desk and be the first stop for a professional when a question arises.
Presented in an easily digestible format, this go-to desktop reference guide provides explanations and clarifications on a variety of issues and concerns facing today’s museum professional, including:
A Legal Dictionary for Museum Professionals features three major sections:
Written by a museum director who holds a law degree and has practiced law, this reference book is intended to be kept within arm’s reach at a desk and be the first stop for a professional when a question arises.
- Intellectual property issues, including copyright, trademark, service marks, and fair use
- Corporate issues, including non-profit status and tax exempt status
- Governance issues, including trustees and fiduciary duties
A Legal Dictionary for Museum Professionals features three major sections:
- In the first, ten common acronyms and symbols are explained.
- In the second, more than 100 terms such as abandoned property, automatic revocation, charitable trust, conflict of interest, declatory judgment, doctrine of equitable deviation, fiduciary duty, nondistribution constraint, partial gift, quid pro quo contribution, and unrelated business income tax are concisely defined specifically in the context of their relevance to day-to-day museum work.
- In the final section, ten additional topics are broken out into a more in-depth explanation, allowing the subtleties and complications to be examined and explained in a plain-language manner. These include ethics and the law, licensing, trademark, The Business Judgment Rule, and Non-Profit Organizations and Tax Exemption.
Written by a museum director who holds a law degree and has practiced law, this reference book is intended to be kept within arm’s reach at a desk and be the first stop for a professional when a question arises.
List of Tables
List of Acronyms
List of Symbols
List of Statutes
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I.
Chapter 1: The Dictionary
Part II.
Chapter 2: In Focus: Ethics and the Law
Chapter 3: In Focus: Copyright Basics
Chapter 4: In Focus: Copyright Infringement and the Fair Use Doctrine
Chapter 5: In Focus: Trademark
Chapter 6: In Focus: Intellectual Property Licensing
Chapter 7: In Focus: Nonprofit Corporations and Tax Exemption
Chapter 8: In Focus: The Board of Trustees and Their Fiduciary Duty
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
List of Acronyms
List of Symbols
List of Statutes
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I.
Chapter 1: The Dictionary
Part II.
Chapter 2: In Focus: Ethics and the Law
Chapter 3: In Focus: Copyright Basics
Chapter 4: In Focus: Copyright Infringement and the Fair Use Doctrine
Chapter 5: In Focus: Trademark
Chapter 6: In Focus: Intellectual Property Licensing
Chapter 7: In Focus: Nonprofit Corporations and Tax Exemption
Chapter 8: In Focus: The Board of Trustees and Their Fiduciary Duty
Bibliography
Index
About the Author