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Asymmetric Market Failure And Prisoner's Dilemma In Intellectual Property, Wendy J. Gordon
Asymmetric Market Failure And Prisoner's Dilemma In Intellectual Property, Wendy J. Gordon
Faculty Scholarship
When competitors engage in unrestrained copying of each others' intangible products, the structure can resemble a prisoner's dilemma in which free choice leads to unnecessarily low individual payoffs and low social welfare. There are many ways to avoid these low payoffs, such as contract enforcement, direct regulation of copying behavior through IP, and direct government subsidies. All of these modes alter the payoff pattern away from prisoner's dilemma.
When should lawmakers place copyright law or other IP law among the prime options to consider?
Because copyright, patent, misappropriation and the like all work through private-property markets, one key is to …
Re St Vincent's Guest House And Cupe, Loc 1082, Innis Christie, M Tynes, Donald H. Mcdougall
Re St Vincent's Guest House And Cupe, Loc 1082, Innis Christie, M Tynes, Donald H. Mcdougall
Innis Christie Collection
The union alleges that the employer breached the collective agreement between the parties effective January 1, 1989 to December 31, 1990, and in particular art. 13.01, Seniority. The union requests that the grievor be granted the position in question and compensated for any lost income which resulted from the alleged breach.
Defining The Prisoners' Dilemma, Wendy J. Gordon
Defining The Prisoners' Dilemma, Wendy J. Gordon
Scholarship Chronologically
Formally, a prisoner's dilemma is defined as follows: There are two participants symmetrically situated. For each player, her payoff if she refuses to cooperate with the other player is higher than her payoff would be if she cooperated, and this is true whether the other chooses to cooperate, or chooses to defect. If both cooperate, her payoff will be higher than if both defect.
The Extraterritorial Application Of Antitrust Laws: The United States And European Community Approaches, Roger P. Alford
The Extraterritorial Application Of Antitrust Laws: The United States And European Community Approaches, Roger P. Alford
Journal Articles
This Article compares the differing approaches of the United States and the European Community as they wrestle with the question of how to regulate foreign anticompetitive activity. More specifically, this Article highlights the distinctive features of the U.S. "effects doctrine" and the European Community's "implementation approach" and analyzes the differences that exist between the two systems. Only the U.S. doctrine openly provides for the consideration of international comity concerns, but both approaches have been used liberally to assert jurisdiction over foreign defendants. Part II of this Article provides a background to the subject by briefly outlining the traditional bases of …
When First Amendment Values And Competition Policy Collide: Resolving The Dilemma Of Mixed-Motive Boycotts, Kay P. Kindred
When First Amendment Values And Competition Policy Collide: Resolving The Dilemma Of Mixed-Motive Boycotts, Kay P. Kindred
Scholarly Works
In a representative democracy, government must protect the rights of its citizens to express ideas, to voice grievances, and to seek to influence government. The first Amendment safeguards these fundamental political rights from government intrusion. In a free market economy, government must protect trade and commerce from activities and influences that lead to increased concentrations of economic power or that otherwise tend to restrain competition. The antitrust laws, specifically the Sherman Act, seek to safeguard the competitive process from restrictive trade practices. Conflict arises when efforts to influence government threaten to undermine competition.
Nowhere is the clash between First Amendment …