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“I have worked with MontaguLaw on many different projects since 2002, both in my current position as General Counsel of a growing artificial intelligence and technology company and in my previous role as the Chief IP counsel of a multi-billion dollar transnational corporation. I know that I can count on MontaguLaw not only to deliver on time and on budget, but to offer creative and effective solutions on a diverse array of legal issues ”
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“In the last twenty years, I have used MontaguLaw to provide a wide range of services. They are incredibly responsive, and I trust them to get the job done on time and on budget. They consistently deliver high-quality results, cost efficiencies and are wonderful to work with.”
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“What I like about MontaguLaw is their responsiveness and reliability. As General Counsel of a major corporation, I know that I can trust MontaguLaw to see our matters through from beginning to end and I have the peace of mind of knowing that our intellectual property is well looked after.”
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General Counsel Cengage Learning
menu_book Intellectual Property Money and Power in a New Era
Whether it's the trade secrets of a hedge fund's algorithms, the copyrights or patents underlying the smart phone, the trademarks that protect well-known brands, intellectual property bastes the modern economy. Brimming with entertaining anecdotes drawn from real-life cases gone awry, this title elucidates a confusing subject and arms readers with the tools they need to prevent common – and costly – mistakes in everyday business interactions.
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Alex Montagu discusses examples from his book: "Intellectual Property: Money and Power In A New Era".
menu_book Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
An important exploration into how copyright morphed from a discrete law that protected books in the Eighteenth Century to the driving engine of the economy and a tool of unprecedented power and wealth in the age of artificial intelligence
See on AmazonPlato and Pushkin, Mickey Mouse and “The Simpsons” make (permissible) appearances in this surprisingly zippy history of copyright protection.
Alexandra Jacobs
The New York TimesDavid Bellos and Alexandre Montagu use the story of Sony’s big Springsteen buy to lead off their lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely book
Louis Menand
The New YorkerMr Bellos and Mr Montagu argue that copyright has gone from a right that favours creators to something more akin to a privilege for the rich and powerful.
The EconomistEarly copyright law separated the rights of the author from those of the printer. The idea was novel.
Dominic Green
The Wall Street JournalThe authors of a fascinating new look at the patchwork chaos called copyright begin their book with this epigraph from an ancient English protest song against fencing, and thereby privatising, common land.
Anne Margaret Daniel
The Spectator...takes an informed, readable look at the torturous history of copyright – its deep antecedents, its omissions, its false promises, and, in some cases, its “long trajectory from the sublime to the ridiculous.”
Steve Donoghue
Open Letters ReviewFrom our Law Community
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ABC AU - Copyright: the world's greatest money making machine
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AccelPro: On The History of Copyright Protection
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With David Bellos, Professor at Princeton University and Alex Montagu, Founding Partner at MontaguLaw.
Podcast Business News Network
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In House Warrior Podcast
The Intellectual Property Interregnum: Alex Montagu speaks with co-hosts Richard Levick of LEVICK and Julian Pecquet, Editor of Foreign Lobby Report, on the evolution from feudalism to capitalism and from copyright law to a new AI frontier dominated by China.
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Is Your Business or Product Name Legal?
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Staying on the Right Side of Copyright Law.
Understanding copyright laws can be complex and accidental infringements could lead to legal trouble. Attorney Alex Montagu, in dialogue with Amy Hourigan, the director of marketing at HAI Group and an IMCA board member, offers valuable advice.
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