Michigan Corporation Law & Practice is the authoritative research tool covering all aspects of Michigan corporate law and practice. It provides clear, reliable guidance to the laws, legislative history, and major case holdings. This complete guide provides a thorough background to the Michigan Business Corporation Act, including discussion of the process by which the corporate entity is created, governed, and ultimately terminated. The text also discusses the closely related Michigan Limited Liability Company Act. The 2021 revision of Michigan Corporation Law & Practice edits and updates the previous edition. Many sections are reorganized for clarity and accessibility. The text includes expanded coverage of limited liability companies. The revised edition reflects: Court decisions applying Michigan law to corporations and limited liability companies relating to: Shareholder oppression. Fiduciary duty. Derivative actions. Director duties. Interested director transactions. Valuation. Delaware developments relevant to Michigan law: Permitted charter and bylaw provisions. Fiduciary duties of directors. Fiduciary duties of limited liability company managers. Inspection of books and records. Appraisal rights. Internal affairs doctrine. Note: Online subscriptions are for three-month periods.

Professor Litman's work stands out as well-researched, doctrinally solid, and always piercingly well-written.-JANE GINSBURG, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property, Columbia UniversityLitman's work is distinctive in several respects: in her informed historical perspective on copyright law and its legislative policy; her remarkable ability to translate complicated copyright concepts and their implications into plain English; her willingness to study, understand, and take seriously what ordinary people think copyright law means; and her creativity in formulating alternatives to the copyright quagmire. -PAMELA SAMUELSON, Professor of Law and Information Management; Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, University of California, BerkeleyIn 1998, copyright lobbyists succeeded in persuading Congress to enact laws greatly expanding copyright owners' control over individuals' private uses of their works. The efforts to enforce these new rights have resulted in highly publicized legal battles between established media and new upstarts.In this enlightening and well-argued book, law professor Jessica Litman questions whether copyright laws crafted by lawyers and their lobbyists really make sense for the vast majority of us. Should every interaction between ordinary consumers and copyright-protected works be restricted by law? Is it practical to enforce such laws, or expect consumers to obey them? What are the effects of such laws on the exchange of information in a free society?Litman's critique exposes the 1998 copyright law as an incoherent patchwork. She argues for reforms that reflect common sense and the way people actually behave in their daily digital interactions.This paperback edition includes an afterword that comments on recent developments, such as the end of the Napster story, the rise of peer-to-peer file sharing, the escalation of a full-fledged copyright war, the filing of lawsuits against thousands of individuals, and the June 2005 Supreme Court decision in the Grokster case.Jessica Litman (Ann Arbor, MI) is professor of law at Wayne State University and a widely recognized expert on copyright law.

This Quick Desk Reference Series edition of the Delaware General Corporation Law contains the Chapters 1 and 5 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code, including the General Corporation Law and the Corporation Franchise Tax chapters. Also included is a list of changes enacted in 2019 that take effect in 2020.

Michigan Law And Practice Encyclopedia, second edition is designed to enable Michigan judges, lawyers, and other legal professionals to conduct their research with maximum efficiency and minimal effort. Michigan Law And Practice Encyclopedia, second edition (cited M.L.P. 2d) gives the bench and bar of Michigan quick access to the law in a useful text-and-footnote format. The text explains the law concisely while reservations, exceptions to, and illustrations of the leading principles are footnoted. Citations and cross-references point out secondary authorities that can be consulted for further research.