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Assertive Modesty: An Economics Of Intangibles, Wendy J. Gordon
Assertive Modesty: An Economics Of Intangibles, Wendy J. Gordon
Faculty Scholarship
At the center of our Symposium stand two papers: "A Manifesto Concerning the Legal Protection of Computer Programs" (Manifesto) and "Legal Hybrids: Between the Patent and Copyright Paradigms" (Legal Hybrids). Both are stimulating. Both are lengthy. As a result, my primary role is that of a guide: this Comment will summarize the authors' proposals, analyze certain aspects in greater detail, and outline their explicit and implicit methodologies. Part I of the Comment describes the papers' positions and methodologies. Part II highlights some of the papers' many contributions to the literature, and offers some other evaluative observations.
Counter-Manifesto: Student-Edited Reviews And The Intellectual Properties Of Scholarship, Wendy J. Gordon
Counter-Manifesto: Student-Edited Reviews And The Intellectual Properties Of Scholarship, Wendy J. Gordon
Faculty Scholarship
In the great scheme of things, how important are the problems with law reviews? Jim Lindgren's essay is a bit overheated, even for someone enamored f polemic as a literary form. But he does have a point: if law reviews are going to be published, the task should be done better than it is. That does not mean getting rid of student law reviews. Not even for Jim - but it does require patience and further inquiry into the nature of legal scholarship.
Virtual Reality, Appropriation, And Property Rights In Art: A Roundtable Discussion, Wendy J. Gordon
Virtual Reality, Appropriation, And Property Rights In Art: A Roundtable Discussion, Wendy J. Gordon
Faculty Scholarship
Virtual reality is user-interfacing technology that tracks the kinetic movement, changes, and reactions in the body of an operator using devices that provide comprehensive and exclusive sensory excitation (in the sense that perceptual input from outside the system is excluded as much as possible). The technology simultaneously allows information and commands to be input back into the system as effortlessly as possible. Virtual reality can be thought of as total sensory immersion in the input and output of a computer system: everything one sees, feels, and hears comes from the computer, and everything the user does goes back in. It's …