Truthfully, even lawyers could use this book, particularly if Intellectual Property is a new area for them. The casual reader may hardly think about it, but all of the details are here for a more advanced learner. The case examples are particularly helpful, and they serve as good stories to break up the pure instruction anyway. A lawyer would clearly be better equipped to understand some of the book's core concepts, and able to study this field as it applies to new media in the future.
Basically, the only issues with Property are simply that it doesn't fit every audience perfectly. As mentioned before, a more casual reader may not understand the programming metaphors, or care about several of the later chapters which are meant for others. Everyone can hone in on their chapters of the book, but more likely than not the entire book won't be for them.
Intellectual Property and Open Source has been a real help for me on learning the basics of intellectual property law and how it is going to apply to the technology of the future. This is a field of law with a lot to clarify, and some important elements that can hugely affect future profits (what if someone worded their patent just right so that it covered the Internet?) Intellectual Property is and will always be an important and divisive point for our society, and this book will introduce you to it as well as any other.
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