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One of my legal libraries - Many many legal English books

Abolition of copyright

The League of Noble Peers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_League_of_Noble_Peers
The League of Noble Peers is an organization credited with producing the Steal This Film documentary series. When releasing Steal This Film (One) the group introduced itself as "a group of friends" that, in 2006, "decided to make a film about filesharing that we would recognise." The Steal This Film series documents the movement against intellectual property and was released via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol.

Legal Books

International Legal English^[1] - Amy Krois-Lindner - (Cambridge University Press) BEST BOOK

Professional English in Use - Law
Drafting Contracts How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do - Tina L. Stark (removed)
English/Russian Legal Glossary - State of California (Yandex link)
Cases.materials on the English Legal System Michael Zander - (10th edition)
Career Paths - Law - Virginia Evans, Jenny Dooley, David Smith
Legal English - Rupert Haigh - (2nd edition) - (Routledge, 2009)
Test your professional English - Law - Nick Brieger

Hand Out: Legal and Latin Terms (12 page pdf)

Economist article: Justice, say cynics, is what the judge had for breakfast. Now they have proof (Word Document)

Audio for Book "English for Legal Professionals"

English for Legal Professionals - Audio:

Contracts Outline

What is a Contract (Outline)
International Legal English (Student Edition - Chapter 5: Contracts)

RUSSIAN LAW

Russian Law in English - Employment Law

Overview of Russian Employment Law
Russian Employment Law
- Russian Labor Law graph created by me, Draft 1 (Word Document)
- Russian Labor Law graph created by me, Draft 2 (Word Document)

Russian Law - First consultation with a lawyer is free for anyone

Russian law – the first consultation is always free for anyone – law 324 (July 11, 2019, Alexander)

Russian Law in English - How to become a Russian Lawyer

How to become a Russian lawyer (Federal Law - NO 63-FZ)

Russian Law Blog in English

Russian legislation in English: http://rublawg.com/

MOVIES & BOOKS

Legal Movie: The Paper Chase

1973 movie the "Paper Chase", showing what American law school is like: https://yadi.sk/i/mBcFYUXvrpB7r

"Paper Chase" script

24 Legal Novels by John Grisham

24 legal fiction novels (in .pdf) from the attorney John Grisham: :https://yadi.sk/d/wXBBKz27rktzh

John Grisham is an extremely popular best selling American author who writes about lawyers and law. Several of his books have become films with such Hollywood superstars such as Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts. They are very well written and extremely entertaining good books. I would recommend the book the "Firm" first.

Non-legal

Legal Articles I have written

YouTube Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Word Document)
Could Facebook be blocked in Russia? (Word Document)
Why millions of Russians could go bankrupt today (Word Document)
Court Russian Supermarket Chain Illegally Deceived Customers (Word Document)
Obama Signs Bill To Legalize Commercial Asteroid Mining (Word Document)
Turkish Court Decides Whether Being Compared To Lord of the Ring's Gollum is Insulting (Word Document)
Russia fast tracks law to overrule European Court of Human Rights ruling condemning mobile phone monitoring (Word Document)
American Amusement Park Sued for Letting Chimpanzee Smoke and Drink Coca Cola (Word Document)
Do Cell Phones Cause Tumors (Word Document)
Four Facebook Entries (Word Document)
Copyright in Russia (Word Document)
LEGAL TERMS - MAIN TABLE find sentences and images (Word Document)
Possible Facebook Blog Article (Word Document)

Non legal four page Word Document: Presenting to Small Groups - November 19, 2015 - Handout (Word Document)

Blog sources I regularly use

Blog sources I regularly use (Word Document)
- Blog sources I regularly use:

http://blogs.findlaw.com/legally_weird/strange-lawsuits/
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/page/3/
http://englishforlaw.blogspot.ru/
http://www.waggonerlegalenglish.com/blog/
http://abovethelaw.com/?rf=1
http://therussiamonitor.com/
Russian legislation in English: http://rublawg.com/

Extreme Poor Legal English Books Written by Russians

Lobbying

External links

https://www.just-english.ru/index_.htm Just English books

Copyright

Copyrigh Term Extension Act, also known as the Sonny Bono Act [Cher's dead husband], or (derisively) the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, effectively "froze" the advancement date of the public domain in the United States for works covered by the older fixed term copyright rules.
The 1998 Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever end is earlier. Copyright protection for works published before January 1, 1978, was increased by 20 years to a total of 95 years from their publication date.
Under this Act, works made in 1923 or afterwards that were still protected by copyright in 1998 would not enter the public domain until January 1, 2019 or later. Mickey Mouse specifically, having first appeared in 1928, will be in a public domain work in 2024 or afterward (depending on the date of the product).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

Sci-Hub

Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature Daniel S Himmelstein, Ariel R Romero, Jacob G Levernier, Thomas A Munro4, Stephen R McLaughlin5, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras6, Casey S Greene. PeerJ. (February 2, 2018).
Brian Resnick and Julia Belluz. The war to free science. How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls. Vox. (July 10, 2019).
Brian Resnick Why one woman stole 50 million academic papers — and made them all free to read. Vox. (Apr 28, 2016).
Michael S. Rosenwald. Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you can read them for free. The Independent. (01 April 2016).
Ian Graber-Stiehl. SCIENCE’S PIRATE QUEEN - Alexandra Elbakyan is plundering the academic publishing establishment. The Verge. Feb 8, 2018.
Lindsay McKenzie. Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed, data analyst suggests. Science Magazine. Jul. 27, 2017.

Sci-Hub - "Sci-Hub can instantly provide access to more than two-thirds of all scholarly articles"

I personally met Russian Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan in January 2020, right before Covid-19 hit. ( https://vk.com/alexandra.elbakyan & https://sci-hub.do/alexandra )

"Sci-Hub can instantly provide access to more than two-thirds of all scholarly articles." - (Doomed - Science Magazine. Jul. 27, 2017)

In 2016 the U.S. Commerce Department released a comprehensive report entitled, “Intellectual Property and the U.S. Economy: 2016 Update,” which found that Intellectual Property intensive industries support at least 45 million U.S. jobs and contribute to more than $6 trillion dollars to, or 38.2 percent of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). (0)

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Lindsay McKenzie. Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed, data analyst suggests. Science Magazine. Jul. 27, 2017. (1)

Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature Daniel S Himmelstein, Ariel R Romero, Jacob G Levernier, Thomas A Munro4, Stephen R McLaughlin5, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras6, Casey S Greene. PeerJ. (February 2, 2018). (2)

Brian Resnick and Julia Belluz. The war to free science. How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls. Vox. (July 10, 2019). (3)

Brian Resnick Why one woman stole 50 million academic papers — and made them all free to read. Vox. (Apr 28, 2016). (4)

Michael S. Rosenwald. Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you can read them for free. The Independent. (01 April 2016). (5)

Ian Graber-Stiehl. SCIENCE’S PIRATE QUEEN - Alexandra Elbakyan is plundering the academic publishing establishment. The Verge. Feb 8, 2018. (6)

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Авторское право как оружие войны против Соединенных Штатов

Copyright as an economic weapon against the United States

http://moscowamerican.com/wiki/Copyright_as_an_economic_weapon_against_the_United_States

(1)

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/sci-hub-s-cache-pirated-papers-so-big-subscription-journals-are-doomed-data-analyst

(2)

https://peerj.com/preprints/3100/